1891 - 1942
Edith Stein, OCD (religious name: Teresa Benedicta of the Cross; 12 October 1891 – 9 August 1942) was a German Jewish philosopher who converted to Catholicism and became a Discalced Carmelite nun. She is canonized as a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church; she is also one of six patron saints of Europe. She was born into an observant Jewish family, but had become an agnostic by her teenage years. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edith Stein has received more than 1,539,153 page views. Her biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Edith Stein is the 139th most popular philosopher (down from 136th in 2019), the 191st most popular biography from Germany (down from 180th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular German Philosopher.
Edith Stein was a German-Jewish philosopher and a convert to Catholicism. She is most famous for her work on the phenomenology of religion.
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Among philosophers, Edith Stein ranks 139 out of 1,081. Before her are Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Baron d'Holbach, Wilhelm Dilthey, John Rawls, Isocrates, and Zhu Xi. After her are Jiddu Krishnamurti, Clement of Alexandria, Simone Weil, György Lukács, Martin Buber, and Hans Kelsen.
1846 - 1926
HPI: 71.73
Rank: 133
1723 - 1789
HPI: 71.73
Rank: 134
1833 - 1911
HPI: 71.70
Rank: 135
1921 - 2002
HPI: 71.69
Rank: 136
436 BC - 338 BC
HPI: 71.57
Rank: 137
1130 - 1200
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 138
1891 - 1942
HPI: 71.33
Rank: 139
1895 - 1986
HPI: 71.26
Rank: 140
150 - 215
HPI: 71.24
Rank: 141
1909 - 1943
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 142
1885 - 1971
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 143
1878 - 1965
HPI: 71.12
Rank: 144
1881 - 1973
HPI: 71.03
Rank: 145
Among people born in 1891, Edith Stein ranks 10. Before her are Sergei Prokofiev, B. R. Ambedkar, Mikhail Bulgakov, Walter Model, James Chadwick, and Max Ernst. After her are Nelly Sachs, Henry Miller, Frederick Banting, Pär Lagerkvist, Walther Bothe, and Rudolf Carnap. Among people deceased in 1942, Edith Stein ranks 5. Before her are Stefan Zweig, Reinhard Heydrich, Janusz Korczak, and Bronisław Malinowski. After her are Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anton Drexler, José Raúl Capablanca, Robert Musil, Jean Baptiste Perrin, William Henry Bragg, and Robert Bosch.
1891 - 1953
HPI: 76.67
Rank: 4
1891 - 1956
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 5
1891 - 1940
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 6
1891 - 1945
HPI: 72.86
Rank: 7
1891 - 1974
HPI: 72.41
Rank: 8
1891 - 1976
HPI: 71.86
Rank: 9
1891 - 1942
HPI: 71.33
Rank: 10
1891 - 1970
HPI: 71.26
Rank: 11
1891 - 1980
HPI: 70.60
Rank: 12
1891 - 1941
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 13
1891 - 1974
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 14
1891 - 1957
HPI: 67.98
Rank: 15
1891 - 1970
HPI: 67.92
Rank: 16
1881 - 1942
HPI: 78.92
Rank: 1
1904 - 1942
HPI: 78.31
Rank: 2
1878 - 1942
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 3
1884 - 1942
HPI: 71.55
Rank: 4
1891 - 1942
HPI: 71.33
Rank: 5
1874 - 1942
HPI: 71.02
Rank: 6
1884 - 1942
HPI: 70.84
Rank: 7
1888 - 1942
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 8
1880 - 1942
HPI: 70.15
Rank: 9
1870 - 1942
HPI: 69.37
Rank: 10
1862 - 1942
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 11
1861 - 1942
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 12
Among people born in Germany, Edith Stein ranks 191 out of 6,142. Before her are Caroline of Ansbach (1683), Emmy Noether (1882), Matthias Grünewald (1480), Ilse Koch (1906), Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (1800), and Hans Holbein the Younger (1497). After her are Philip Melanchthon (1497), Rudolf I of Germany (1218), Emil Fischer (1852), Nelly Sachs (1891), Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (1756), and Jacob Grimm (1785).
1683 - 1737
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 185
1882 - 1935
HPI: 71.39
Rank: 186
1480 - 1528
HPI: 71.37
Rank: 187
1906 - 1967
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 188
1800 - 1891
HPI: 71.34
Rank: 189
1497 - 1545
HPI: 71.34
Rank: 190
1891 - 1942
HPI: 71.33
Rank: 191
1497 - 1560
HPI: 71.31
Rank: 192
1218 - 1291
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 193
1852 - 1919
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 194
1891 - 1970
HPI: 71.26
Rank: 195
1756 - 1825
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 196
1785 - 1863
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 197
Among philosophers born in Germany, Edith Stein ranks 23. Before her are Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900), Oswald Spengler (1880), Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846), Baron d'Holbach (1723), and Wilhelm Dilthey (1833). After her are Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714), Herbert Marcuse (1898), Adam Weishaupt (1748), Ferdinand Tönnies (1855), Max Stirner (1806), and Carl Schmitt (1888).
1776 - 1841
HPI: 72.52
Rank: 17
1900 - 2002
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 18
1880 - 1936
HPI: 71.99
Rank: 19
1846 - 1926
HPI: 71.73
Rank: 20
1723 - 1789
HPI: 71.73
Rank: 21
1833 - 1911
HPI: 71.70
Rank: 22
1891 - 1942
HPI: 71.33
Rank: 23
1714 - 1762
HPI: 70.94
Rank: 24
1898 - 1979
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 25
1748 - 1830
HPI: 70.09
Rank: 26
1855 - 1936
HPI: 70.08
Rank: 27
1806 - 1856
HPI: 69.99
Rank: 28
1888 - 1985
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 29