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Annemarie Schimmel

1922 - 2003

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Annemarie Schimmel (7 April 1922 – 26 January 2003) was an influential German Orientalist and scholar who wrote extensively on Islam, especially Sufism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Annemarie Schimmel has received more than 278,090 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Annemarie Schimmel is the 487th most popular philosopher (down from 478th in 2019), the 1,340th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,240th in 2019) and the 65th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Annemarie Schimmel ranks 487 out of 1,081Before her are Karl-Otto Apel, William of Champeaux, Martha Nussbaum, Gaetano Mosca, Themistius, and Nezahualcoyotl. After her are Antiochus of Ascalon, Antoine Destutt de Tracy, Priscian, Valentinus, Peter Deunov, and Émile Chartier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Annemarie Schimmel ranks 79Before her are Ugo Tognazzi, Mao Anying, Roger Etchegaray, Enrico Berlinguer, Arthur Penn, and Karl-Otto Apel. After her are Elmer Bernstein, Abdul Razak Hussein, Veronica Lake, Gianna Beretta Molla, Charles Mingus, and Leon M. Lederman. Among people deceased in 2003, Annemarie Schimmel ranks 52Before her are Mario Beccaria, László Papp, Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Rasul Gamzatov, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, and June Carter Cash. After her are Bob Hope, Monique Wittig, Lee Yoo-hyung, Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, Walt Whitman Rostow, and Anna Lindh.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Annemarie Schimmel ranks 1,340 out of 6,142Before her are Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1828), Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1654), Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813), Gertrude of Merania (1185), Otto of Bamberg (1060), and Helmut Haller (1939). After her are Gunter Sachs (1932), Karl Richter (1926), Helmuth James von Moltke (1907), August Hirt (1898), Niklot (1100), and Prince Konrad of Bavaria (1883).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Annemarie Schimmel ranks 65Before her are Franz Rosenzweig (1886), Henry Suso (1295), Ernst Troeltsch (1865), Leo Strauss (1899), Karl Löwith (1897), and Karl-Otto Apel (1922). After her are Axel Honneth (1949), Hans Vaihinger (1852), Karl Korsch (1886), Carl Stumpf (1848), Conrad Celtes (1459), and Eugen Fink (1905).