PHILOSOPHER

Carl von Clausewitz

1780 - 1831

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Carl Philipp Gottfried (or Gottlieb) von Clausewitz ( KLOW-zə-vits, German: [ˈkaʁl fɔn ˈklaʊzəvɪts] ; 1 July 1780 – 16 November 1831) was a Prussian general and military theorist who stressed the "moral" (in modern terms meaning psychological) and political aspects of waging war. His most notable work, Vom Kriege (About War), though unfinished at his death, is considered a seminal treatise on military strategy and science. Clausewitz stressed the multiplex interaction of diverse factors in war, noting how unexpected developments unfolding under the "fog of war" (i.e., in the face of incomplete, dubious, and often erroneous information and great fear, doubt, and excitement) call for rapid decisions by alert commanders. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl von Clausewitz has received more than 2,832,805 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Carl von Clausewitz is the 79th most popular philosopher (up from 85th in 2019), the 90th most popular biography from Germany (up from 104th in 2019) and the 11th most popular German Philosopher.

Carl von Clausewitz is most famous for his book On War.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Carl von Clausewitz ranks 79 out of 1,267. Before him are Rudolf Steiner, George Berkeley, Ramakrishna, Jürgen Habermas, Xenophanes, and Nagarjuna. After him are Nicholas of Cusa, Gregory of Nazianzus, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Mencius, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, and John of Damascus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1780, Carl von Clausewitz ranks 2. Before him is Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. After him are Pauline Bonaparte, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, Miloš Obrenović, Jules de Polignac, Charles Nodier, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Ranjit Singh, Jernej Kopitar, Sacagawea, and Mary Somerville. Among people deceased in 1831, Carl von Clausewitz ranks 2. Before him is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. After him are James Monroe, Napoléon Louis Bonaparte, Sophie Germain, Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia, Ioannis Kapodistrias, Emilia Plater, Nat Turner, Achim von Arnim, Charles Felix of Sardinia, and Archduke Rudolf of Austria.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl von Clausewitz ranks 90 out of 7,253. Before him are Helmut Kohl (1930), William Herschel (1738), Jürgen Habermas (1929), Heinz Guderian (1888), Gottlieb Daimler (1834), and Heinrich Schliemann (1822). After him are Wilhelm Keitel (1882), Nicholas of Cusa (1401), Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893), Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1050), Theodor Mommsen (1817), and Gerhard Schröder (1944).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Carl von Clausewitz ranks 11. Before him are Hannah Arendt (1906), Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762), Ludwig Feuerbach (1804), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775), Karl Jaspers (1883), and Jürgen Habermas (1929). After him are Nicholas of Cusa (1401), Walter Benjamin (1892), Meister Eckhart (1260), Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767), Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846), and Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776).

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