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Albrecht Ritschl

1822 - 1889

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Albrecht Benjamin Ritschl (25 March 1822 – 20 March 1889) was a German Protestant theologian. Starting in 1852, Ritschl lectured on systematic theology. According to this system, faith was understood to be irreducible to other experiences, beyond the scope of reason. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albrecht Ritschl has received more than 153,123 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Albrecht Ritschl is the 888th most popular philosopher (up from 907th in 2019), the 3,069th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,158th in 2019) and the 112th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Albrecht Ritschl ranks 888 out of 1,267. Before him are David of Dinant, Theodoric of Freiberg, Jacob Moleschott, Nikephoros Blemmydes, Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, and Abu al-Hassan al-Amiri. After him are Ernst von Glasersfeld, Ian Hacking, Axiothea of Phlius, Ber Borochov, Beatus Rhenanus, and Feng Youlan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Albrecht Ritschl ranks 47. Before him are Princess Augusta Reuss of Köstritz, Princess Augusta of Cambridge, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, Julius von Haast, Jakob Dubs, and Jacob Moleschott. After him are Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse, Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Apollonie Sabatier, Bernhard Hammer, Dmitry Grigorovich, and Luis Sáenz Peña. Among people deceased in 1889, Albrecht Ritschl ranks 50. Before him are Johann Jakob von Tschudi, Champfleury, John Hughes, Benedetto Cairoli, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, and Yohannes IV. After him are Laura Bridgman, Jean-Baptiste Arban, Belle Starr, Louis Faidherbe, Ivan Larionov, and Ignatz Kolisch.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Albrecht Ritschl ranks 3,069 out of 7,253. Before him are Eberhard IV, Count of Württemberg (1388), John Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1594), Ricarda Huch (1864), Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe-Weissenfels (1648), Gustav Fröhlich (1902), and Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854). After him are Enno III, Count of East Frisia (1563), Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (1599), Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917), Frederick Louis, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1619), Maximilian, Margrave of Baden (1933), and Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1627).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Albrecht Ritschl ranks 112. Before him are Joseph Dietzgen (1828), Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792), Valentin Weigel (1533), Rudolf Stammler (1856), Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588), and Theodoric of Freiberg (1250). After him are Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917), Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873), Johannes Agricola (1494), Erich Neumann (1905), Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743), and Karl Groos (1861).

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