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Edvard Westermarck

1862 - 1939

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Edvard Alexander Westermarck (20 November 1862 in Helsinki – 3 September 1939 in Tenala) was a Finnish philosopher and sociologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edvard Westermarck has received more than 133,988 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Edvard Westermarck is the 710th most popular philosopher (down from 675th in 2019), the 82nd most popular biography from Finland (down from 73rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Finnish Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Edvard Westermarck ranks 710 out of 1,267. Before him are Anne Conway, Eknath, Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī, Joseph Albo, Julien Benda, and Cristoforo Landino. After him are Asclepigenia, Nikolai Amosov, Clitomachus, Aedesia, Arnold Ruge, and Fulbert of Chartres.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Edvard Westermarck ranks 58. Before him are Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Nitobe Inazō, Arvid Lindman, Frederick Delius, Nicholas Murray Butler, and Eugen Ehrlich. After him are Adolphe Appia, Léon Boëllmann, Sergei Nilus, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Louis Botha, and Paul Adam. Among people deceased in 1939, Edvard Westermarck ranks 52. Before him are Grigori Sokolnikov, Armand Călinescu, Kolë Idromeno, Eugen Weidmann, Bronisława Dłuska, and Arthur Rackham. After him are Xu Shichang, Kyōka Izumi, Oscar Milosz, Yevgeny Miller, Konstantin Korovin, and Havelock Ellis.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Edvard Westermarck ranks 82 out of 751. Before him are Petteri Orpo (1969), Ernst Linder (1868), Peter Forsskål (1732), Pekka Haavisto (1958), Henri Toivonen (1956), and Jarno Saarinen (1945). After him are Matthias Castrén (1813), Clas Thunberg (1893), Tommi Mäkinen (1964), Yrjö Väisälä (1891), Liisi Oterma (1915), and Elissa Aalto (1922).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Finland

Among philosophers born in Finland, Edvard Westermarck ranks 3. Before him are Georg Henrik von Wright (1916), and Jaakko Hintikka (1929). After him are Eino Kaila (1890).

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