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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 442,836 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Eric Voegelin is the 568th most popular philosopher (down from 551st in 2019), the 1,654th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,508th in 2019) and the 76th most popular German Philosopher.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Eric Voegelin ranks 568 out of 1,081. Before him are Zengzi, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Henry Corbin, Anaxarchus, James Ussher, and Johann Bernhard Basedow. After him are Paul Virilio, Zhang Daoling, Barlaam of Seminara, Yang Zhu, Thomas Reid, and Hans Blumenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Eric Voegelin ranks 76. Before him are Raimundo Orsi, Mildred Harris, Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Gino Cervi, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, and Yang Kaihui. After him are Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria, Barbara Cartland, George Gallup, Hugo Gunckel Lüer, Ub Iwerks, and Alexander Fadeyev. Among people deceased in 1985, Eric Voegelin ranks 50. Before him are Cus D'Amato, Jean-Marie Loret, Kim Yong-sik, Tancredo Neves, Henry Hathaway, and David Byron. After him are Ruth Gordon, Louise Brooks, Zarifa Aliyeva, Michael Redgrave, Herbert Bayer, and Wellington Koo.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Eric Voegelin ranks 1,654 out of 6,142. Before him are William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (1487), Hartmut Michel (1948), Johann Bernhard Basedow (1723), Walter Simons (1861), Udo Dirkschneider (1952), and August Kundt (1839). After him are Duchess Caroline Mariane of Mecklenburg (1821), Otto V, Duke of Bavaria (1346), Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1818), Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824), Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia (1730), and Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Eric Voegelin ranks 76. Before him are Conrad Celtes (1459), Eugen Fink (1905), Eduard Spranger (1882), Werner Jaeger (1888), Ludwig Büchner (1824), and Johann Bernhard Basedow (1723). After him are Hans Blumenberg (1920), Hermann Lotze (1817), Constantin von Tischendorf (1815), Johannes Sturm (1507), Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769), and Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781).

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