PHILOSOPHER

Eric Voegelin

1901 - 1985

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Eric Voegelin (born Erich Hermann Wilhelm Vögelin, German: [ˈføːgəliːn]; January 3, 1901 – January 19, 1985) was a German-American political philosopher. He was born in Cologne, and educated in political science at the University of Vienna, where he became an associate professor of political science in the law faculty. In 1938, he and his wife fled from the Nazi forces which had entered Vienna. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eric Voegelin has received more than 479,447 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Eric Voegelin is the 556th most popular philosopher (up from 568th in 2019), the 1,575th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,654th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Eric Voegelin ranks 556 out of 1,267. Before him are Crates of Athens, Narayana Guru, Ammonius Hermiae, Marcus Cornelius Fronto, Sergei Bulgakov, and Al-Shahrastani. After him are Nicos Poulantzas, Manuel Chrysoloras, Silvia Federici, John Austin, Liu Bowen, and Tom Regan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Eric Voegelin ranks 75. Before him are Tage Erlander, Rudolf Caracciola, Stefan Wyszyński, Alice Prin, Gino Cervi, and Ub Iwerks. After him are Hugo Gunckel Lüer, Adelaide Hall, Yang Kaihui, Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria, Ödön von Horváth, and Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry. Among people deceased in 1985, Eric Voegelin ranks 50. Before him are Tjalling Koopmans, Méret Oppenheim, Emílio Garrastazu Médici, Kim Yong-sik, Kirill Moskalenko, and Frank Oppenheimer. After him are Wellington Koo, Zarifa Aliyeva, Axel Springer, Karl-Adolf Hollidt, Alexander Pokryshkin, and Theodore Sturgeon.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Eric Voegelin ranks 1,575 out of 7,253. Before him are Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia (1200), Franz Hössler (1906), Hans Knappertsbusch (1888), Bruno Streckenbach (1902), Hans Speidel (1897), and Oswald Achenbach (1827). After him are Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1526), Matthias Kleinheisterkamp (1893), Gottfried John (1942), Marianne Weber (1870), Heiner Müller (1929), and Gertrude of Hohenberg (1225).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Eric Voegelin ranks 73. Before him are Annemarie Schimmel (1922), Eduard Spranger (1882), Hans Blumenberg (1920), Hans Vaihinger (1852), Karl Korsch (1886), and Axel Honneth (1949). After him are Andreas Karlstadt (1486), Johann Bernhard Basedow (1723), Ludwig Büchner (1824), Conrad Celtes (1459), Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781), and Hans Albert (1921).

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