PHILOSOPHER

Carl Schmitt

1888 - 1985

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Carl Schmitt (11 July 1888 – 7 April 1985) was a German jurist, political theorist, and prominent member of the Nazi Party. Born in Plettenberg in 1888, Schmitt studied law in Berlin, Munich, and Strasbourg. In 1916, he married his first wife, Pavla Dorotić, but divorced her after realizing that she had pretended to be a countess. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Schmitt has received more than 2,069,849 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Carl Schmitt is the 155th most popular philosopher (up from 163rd in 2019), the 242nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 259th in 2019) and the 28th most popular German Philosopher.

Carl Schmitt was a German jurist and political theorist who is most famous for his theories on the concept of the "political".

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Carl Schmitt ranks 155 out of 1,267Before him are György Lukács, Louis Althusser, Adi Shankara, Max Scheler, Clement of Alexandria, and Herbert Marcuse. After him are Friedrich Schleiermacher, John Rawls, Ferdinand Tönnies, John Wycliffe, Hippias, and Chrysippus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Carl Schmitt ranks 10Before him are Dale Carnegie, José Raúl Capablanca, Otto Stern, Nikolai Bukharin, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and Shmuel Yosef Agnon. After him are Giorgio de Chirico, Alexander I of Yugoslavia, Nestor Makhno, Jean Monnet, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, and Raymond Chandler. Among people deceased in 1985, Carl Schmitt ranks 7Before him are Marc Chagall, Enver Hoxha, Yul Brynner, Konstantin Chernenko, Heinrich Böll, and Italo Calvino. After him are Simone Signoret, Fernand Braudel, Orson Welles, László Bíró, Jean Dubuffet, and Rock Hudson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Schmitt ranks 242 out of 7,253Before him are Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden (1710), Georgius Agricola (1494), Erich Hartmann (1922), Rudolf I of Germany (1218), Paul Heyse (1830), and Herbert Marcuse (1898). After him are Walther von Brauchitsch (1881), Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (1016), Leopold von Ranke (1795), Ferdinand Tönnies (1855), Simone Signoret (1921), and Albert Kesselring (1885).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Carl Schmitt ranks 28Before him are Wilhelm Dilthey (1833), Edith Stein (1891), Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714), Max Stirner (1806), Max Scheler (1874), and Herbert Marcuse (1898). After him are Ferdinand Tönnies (1855), Max Horkheimer (1895), Athanasius Kircher (1602), Moses Mendelssohn (1729), Adam Weishaupt (1748), and Rudolf Carnap (1891).