1874 - 1945
Ernst Alfred Cassirer ( kah-SEER-ər, kə-, German: [ˈɛʁnst kaˈsiːʁɐ]; July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German philosopher. Trained within the Neo-Kantian Marburg School, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic philosophy of science. After Cohen's death in 1918, Cassirer developed a theory of symbolism and used it to expand phenomenology of knowledge into a more general philosophy of culture. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Cassirer has received more than 449,444 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Ernst Cassirer is the 155th most popular philosopher (up from 158th in 2019), the 46th most popular biography from Poland and the 4th most popular Polish Philosopher.
Ernst Cassirer is most famous for his philosophy of symbolic forms. He believes that there are three stages of human thought, the mythical, the classical, and the modern. The mythical stage is characterized by the idea that things are alive and have a soul. The classical stage is characterized by the idea that things are inanimate and don't have a soul. The modern stage is characterized by the idea that things are made of atoms and molecules and have no soul.
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Among philosophers, Ernst Cassirer ranks 155 out of 1,081. Before him are Jean Baudrillard, Herbert Marcuse, Hippias, Adi Shankara, John Wycliffe, and Louis Althusser. After him are Christian Wolff, Adam Weishaupt, Ferdinand Tönnies, Max Stirner, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Padmasambhava.
1929 - 2007
HPI: 70.57
Rank: 149
1898 - 1979
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 150
443 BC - 399 BC
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 151
788 - 820
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 152
1324 - 1384
HPI: 70.25
Rank: 153
1918 - 1990
HPI: 70.23
Rank: 154
1874 - 1945
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 155
1679 - 1754
HPI: 70.12
Rank: 156
1748 - 1830
HPI: 70.09
Rank: 157
1855 - 1936
HPI: 70.08
Rank: 158
1806 - 1856
HPI: 69.99
Rank: 159
1895 - 1975
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 160
717 - 762
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 161
Among people born in 1874, Ernst Cassirer ranks 10. Before him are Harry Houdini, Arnold Schoenberg, Herbert Hoover, Howard Carter, Edward Thorndike, and Lucy Maud Montgomery. After him are Chaim Weizmann, Max Scheler, António Egas Moniz, Johannes Stark, Alexander Kolchak, and Carl Bosch. Among people deceased in 1945, Ernst Cassirer ranks 19. Before him are Magda Goebbels, Anton Webern, Subhas Chandra Bose, Wilhelm Canaris, Paul Valéry, and Heinrich Müller. After him are Irma Grese, Johan Huizinga, Pietro Mascagni, Clara Petacci, Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, and David Lloyd George.
1874 - 1926
HPI: 74.75
Rank: 4
1874 - 1951
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 5
1874 - 1964
HPI: 72.37
Rank: 6
1874 - 1939
HPI: 71.79
Rank: 7
1874 - 1949
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 8
1874 - 1942
HPI: 71.02
Rank: 9
1874 - 1945
HPI: 70.18
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1874 - 1952
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 11
1874 - 1928
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 12
1874 - 1955
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 13
1874 - 1957
HPI: 68.93
Rank: 14
1874 - 1920
HPI: 68.43
Rank: 15
1874 - 1940
HPI: 68.21
Rank: 16
1901 - 1945
HPI: 71.77
Rank: 13
1883 - 1945
HPI: 71.71
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1897 - 1945
HPI: 71.66
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1887 - 1945
HPI: 71.02
Rank: 16
1871 - 1945
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 17
1900 - 1945
HPI: 70.21
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1874 - 1945
HPI: 70.18
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1923 - 1945
HPI: 70.13
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1872 - 1945
HPI: 70.09
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1863 - 1945
HPI: 69.85
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1912 - 1945
HPI: 69.44
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1864 - 1945
HPI: 69.30
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1863 - 1945
HPI: 69.01
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Among people born in Poland, Ernst Cassirer ranks 46 out of 1,454. Before him are Rudolf Virchow (1821), Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928), Rudolf Clausius (1822), Sigismund II Augustus (1520), Lech Kaczyński (1949), and Tamara de Lempicka (1898). After him are Christian Wolff (1679), Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906), Paul Ehrlich (1854), Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923), Władysław III of Poland (1424), and Klaus Kinski (1926).
1821 - 1902
HPI: 70.92
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1928 - 2017
HPI: 70.64
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1822 - 1888
HPI: 70.49
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1520 - 1572
HPI: 70.47
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1949 - 2010
HPI: 70.32
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1898 - 1980
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 45
1874 - 1945
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 46
1679 - 1754
HPI: 70.12
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1906 - 1972
HPI: 70.09
Rank: 48
1854 - 1915
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 49
1923 - 2014
HPI: 70.02
Rank: 50
1424 - 1444
HPI: 69.98
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1926 - 1991
HPI: 69.94
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Among philosophers born in Poland, Ernst Cassirer ranks 4. Before him are Arthur Schopenhauer (1788), Johann Gottfried Herder (1744), and Zygmunt Bauman (1925). After him are Christian Wolff (1679), Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768), Jakob Böhme (1575), Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), Alfred Tarski (1901), Günther Anders (1902), Paul Tillich (1886), and Heinrich Rickert (1863).
1788 - 1860
HPI: 84.74
Rank: 1
1744 - 1803
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 2
1925 - 2017
HPI: 72.45
Rank: 3
1874 - 1945
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 4
1679 - 1754
HPI: 70.12
Rank: 5
1768 - 1834
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 6
1575 - 1624
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 7
1512 - 1609
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 8
1901 - 1983
HPI: 63.98
Rank: 9
1902 - 1992
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 10
1886 - 1965
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 11
1863 - 1936
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 12