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Dorothee Sölle

1929 - 2003

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Dorothee Steffensky-Sölle (née Nipperdey; 1929–2003), known as Dorothee Sölle, was a German liberation theologian who coined the term "Christofascism". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dorothee Sölle has received more than 149,128 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Dorothee Sölle is the 4,328th most popular writer (down from 3,904th in 2019), the 4,240th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,678th in 2019) and the 264th most popular German Writer.

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  • 2.67

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Dorothee Sölle ranks 4,328 out of 7,302Before her are Robin Sharma, Mike Resnick, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Louise-Victorine Ackermann, Mordecai Richler, and Herbert Achternbusch. After her are Franciszek Karpiński, Orhan Kemal, Winston Graham, Helen Prejean, Breyten Breytenbach, and Ruth Westheimer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Dorothee Sölle ranks 316Before her are Omar Borrás, Abderrahmane Mahjoub, Hallgeir Brenden, Francesco Marchisano, Nirmal Verma, and Marcel Amont. After her are Klausjürgen Wussow, Claude Nougaro, Larry Collins, Shozo Sasahara, Henry E. Holt, and Chi Haotian. Among people deceased in 2003, Dorothee Sölle ranks 213Before her are Lev Kerbel, Art Carney, Anita Borg, Yuriy Voynov, Jesse Carver, and Tomáš Pospíchal. After her are Winston Graham, Leonid Filatov, Mutsuhiro Watanabe, Rosalyn Tureck, Emília Rotter, and Bernard Dowiyogo.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Dorothee Sölle ranks 4,240 out of 7,253Before her are Louise Caroline of Hochberg (1768), Adolf Urban (1914), Ernst Herzfeld (1879), Herbert Achternbusch (1938), Franz Delitzsch (1813), and Princess Marie of Nassau (1825). After her are Peter Gay (1923), Anton-Günther, Duke of Oldenburg (1923), Ernst Albrecht (1907), Ruth Westheimer (1928), Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald (1902), and Gisela Arendt (1918).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Dorothee Sölle ranks 264Before her are Bel Kaufman (1911), Joachim Ringelnatz (1883), Iwan Bloch (1872), Fritz Reuter (1810), Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746), and Herbert Achternbusch (1938). After her are Ruth Westheimer (1928), Elke Erb (1938), Karl Leberecht Immermann (1796), Paul Bekker (1882), Johann Beckmann (1739), and Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901).