PHILOSOPHER

Eduard Spranger

1882 - 1963

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Eduard Spranger (27 June 1882 – 17 September 1963) was a German philosopher and psychologist. A student of Wilhelm Dilthey, Spranger was born in Berlin and died in Tübingen. He was considered a humanist who developed a philosophical pedagogy as an act of 'self defense' against the psychology-oriented experimental theory of the times.Spranger was the author of the book Lebensformen (Translated as Types of Men), which sold 28,000 copies by the end of 1920. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eduard Spranger has received more than 96,694 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Eduard Spranger is the 521st most popular philosopher (up from 550th in 2019), the 1,420th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,564th in 2019) and the 68th most popular German Philosopher.

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.74

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Over the past year Eduard Spranger has had the most page views in the with 14,169 views, followed by English (10,495), and Japanese (5,077). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Indonesian (542.33%), Swedish (72.20%), and Egyptian Arabic (67.74%)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Eduard Spranger ranks 521 out of 1,267. Before him are Charles Taylor, Annemarie Schimmel, A. J. Ayer, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Louis Couturat, and William of Champeaux. After him are Émile Chartier, Shen Buhai, Henry Corbin, Hans Blumenberg, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, and Metrodorus of Lampsacus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Eduard Spranger ranks 70. Before him are Dušan Simović, Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Johnny Torrio, John Rabe, Friedrich Dollmann, and Lucien Petit-Breton. After him are Korney Chukovsky, Husband E. Kimmel, Germaine Dulac, Joaquín Turina, Leopold Stokowski, and Harold Lowe. Among people deceased in 1963, Eduard Spranger ranks 40. Before him are Karl Bühler, Georg-Hans Reinhardt, Pedro Armendáriz, Michael Rockefeller, Piero Manzoni, and Sivananda Saraswati. After him are Sylvanus Olympio, Gustave Garrigou, Alois Hudal, Remedios Varo, William Beveridge, and Karl von Terzaghi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Eduard Spranger ranks 1,420 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller (1806), Tarkan (1972), Sepp Herberger (1897), Ralf Rangnick (1958), Hartmann Schedel (1440), and Hartmann von Aue (1160). After him are Johann Kuhnau (1660), Michael Wolgemut (1434), Karl Richter (1926), Erdoğan Atalay (1966), Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria (1823), and Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal (1861).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Eduard Spranger ranks 68. Before him are Ernst Troeltsch (1865), Carl Stumpf (1848), Karl-Otto Apel (1922), Hermann Lotze (1817), Karl Löwith (1897), and Annemarie Schimmel (1922). After him are Hans Blumenberg (1920), Hans Vaihinger (1852), Karl Korsch (1886), Axel Honneth (1949), Eric Voegelin (1901), and Andreas Karlstadt (1486).

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