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PHILOSOPHER

Carl Schmitt

1888 - 1985

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Carl Schmitt (; 11 July 1888 – 7 April 1985) was a German jurist, political theorist, geopolitician 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 1,844,190 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Carl Schmitt is the 163rd most popular philosopher (down from 153rd in 2019), the 259th most popular biography from Germany (down from 216th in 2019) and the 29th 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 163 out of 1,081Before him are Adam Weishaupt, Ferdinand Tönnies, Max Stirner, Mikhail Bakhtin, Padmasambhava, and Cesare Beccaria. After him are Friedrich Schleiermacher, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Marshall McLuhan, Paul Ricœur, Chrysippus, and Porphyry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Carl Schmitt ranks 10Before him are Dale Carnegie, John Logie Baird, José Raúl Capablanca, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Giorgio de Chirico, and Otto Stern. After him are Nikolai Bukharin, Nestor Makhno, Alexander I of Yugoslavia, Raymond Chandler, Jean Monnet, and Friedrich Fromm. Among people deceased in 1985, Carl Schmitt ranks 8Before him are Enver Hoxha, Konstantin Chernenko, Yul Brynner, Heinrich Böll, Orson Welles, and Fernand Braudel. After him are Italo Calvino, László Bíró, Simone Signoret, Rock Hudson, Charles Francis Richter, and Dian Fossey.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Schmitt ranks 259 out of 6,142Before him are Max Stirner (1806), Julius Streicher (1885), Helmut Schmidt (1918), Justus von Liebig (1803), Maria Sibylla Merian (1647), and Adolf von Baeyer (1835). After him are Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (1620), Heinrich von Kleist (1777), Klaus Barbie (1913), Princess Ludovika of Bavaria (1808), Pope Damasus II (1000), and Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (1868).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Carl Schmitt ranks 29Before him are Edith Stein (1891), Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714), Herbert Marcuse (1898), Adam Weishaupt (1748), Ferdinand Tönnies (1855), and Max Stirner (1806). After him are Max Scheler (1874), Max Horkheimer (1895), Athanasius Kircher (1602), Rudolf Carnap (1891), Moses Mendelssohn (1729), and Franz Brentano (1838).