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PHILOSOPHER

Arthur Oncken Lovejoy

1873 - 1962

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Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (October 10, 1873 – December 30, 1962) was an American philosopher and intellectual historian, who founded the discipline known as the history of ideas with his book The Great Chain of Being (1936), on the topic of that name, which is regarded as 'probably the single most influential work in the history of ideas in the United States during the last half century'. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1932. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Oncken Lovejoy has received more than 118,224 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Arthur Oncken Lovejoy is the 897th most popular philosopher (down from 883rd in 2019), the 3,087th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,901st in 2019) and the 110th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy ranks 897 out of 1,081. Before him are Kumārila Bhaṭṭa, Erich Neumann, Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Tomáš Halík, Frederick Copleston, and Abu Sulayman Sijistani. After him are Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Porcia, Ian Hacking, Leo Baeck, Boris Parygin, and Cineas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy ranks 94. Before him are E. D. Morel, Ramón Castillo, Joseph Jongen, Marija Jurić Zagorka, Thomas Curtis, and Mikhail Prishvin. After him are Leo Baeck, Miklós Bánffy, Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, Matteo Bartoli, Ford Madox Ford, and Auguste Chevalier. Among people deceased in 1962, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy ranks 97. Before him are György Orth, Edmond Privat, Donald Lippincott, Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria, José Giral, and Pedro Pablo Ramírez. After him are Max Vasmer, Ahmad bin Yahya, Kunio Yanagita, Carl Diem, Alessandro Pirzio Biroli, and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy ranks 3,087 out of 6,142. Before him are Roger Schmidt (1967), Adolf Mayer (1843), Marianne Cope (1838), Halet Çambel (1916), Thomas Gottschalk (1950), and Karl Koller (1898). After him are Hamit Altıntop (1982), Rolf Carls (1885), Udo Zimmermann (1943), Thilo Sarrazin (1945), Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805), and Ingrid Caven (1938).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy ranks 110. Before him are Joseph Dietzgen (1828), Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743), Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917), Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773), Johannes Nikolaus Tetens (1736), and Erich Neumann (1905). After him are Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg (1802), Albrecht Ritschl (1822), Leo Löwenthal (1900), Gabriel Biel (1418), Carl Dahlhaus (1928), and Rudolf Stammler (1856).

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