PHILOSOPHER

Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde

1930 - 2019

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Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (German: [ɛʁnst ˈvɔlfɡaŋ ˈbœkŋ̍ˌføːɐ̯də]; 19 September 1930 – 24 February 2019) was a German legal scholar and a justice on Germany's Federal Constitutional Court. He was a professor at the University of Freiburg and the author of more than 20 books and 80 articles dealing with legal and constitutional theory, as well as political theory, political philosophy and Catholic political thought. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde has received more than 81,585 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde is the 1,184th most popular philosopher (down from 1,075th in 2019), the 4,954th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,199th in 2019) and the 147th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde ranks 1,184 out of 1,267. Before him are Buddhapālita, Vicente Ferreira da Silva, Leila Ahmed, Hermann Lietz, Iris Marion Young, and William Chittick. After him are Richard Price, Judith Jarvis Thomson, David Malet Armstrong, John Major, Papirius Fabianus, and Quentin Meillassoux.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde ranks 463. Before him are Richard Lynn, José Guardiola, José Luis Artetxe, Pavel Kolchin, Adam Maida, and Adam Darius. After him are Richard Bonynge, Nathan Zach, Fred Saberhagen, Bob Mathias, Anton Donchev, and Cabeção. Among people deceased in 2019, Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde ranks 383. Before him are Olavi Mannonen, Sidney Verba, Shelley Lubben, Peter Tork, Asunción Balaguer, and Martin Lauer. After him are Francesco Janich, Ivan Bortnik, Claes Andersson, Göran Malmqvist, Goo Hara, and Jacques Diouf.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde ranks 4,954 out of 7,253. Before him are Albert Ladenburg (1842), Philipp Plein (1978), Thomas Struth (1954), Heinrich Moritz Willkomm (1821), Adolf Bartels (1862), and Nikolaus Pevsner (1902). After him are Carl Hindenburg (1741), Gustav Lindau (1866), Martin Wuttke (1962), Nathan Zach (1930), Willibald Kreß (1906), and Niclas Füllkrug (1993).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde ranks 147. Before him are Friedrich Eduard Beneke (1798), Martin Chemnitz (1522), Friedrich Gogarten (1887), Dieter Henrich (1927), F. C. S. Schiller (1864), and Hermann Lietz (1868). After him are Walter Kaufmann (1921), Volker Zotz (1956), and Richard David Precht (1964).

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