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PHILOSOPHER

F. C. S. Schiller

1864 - 1937

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Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller, FBA (16 August 1864 – 6 August 1937), usually cited as F. C. S. Schiller, was a German-British philosopher. Born in Altona, Holstein (at that time member of the German Confederation, but under Danish administration), Schiller studied at the University of Oxford, later was a professor there, after being invited back after a brief time at Cornell University. Later in his life he taught at the University of Southern California. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of F. C. S. Schiller has received more than 82,529 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). F. C. S. Schiller is the 1,084th most popular philosopher (down from 1,013th in 2019), the 4,242nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,721st in 2019) and the 130th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, F. C. S. Schiller ranks 1,084 out of 1,081Before him are Jaegwon Kim, Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Barbara Cassin, David Malet Armstrong, Helene von Druskowitz, and Geydar Dzhemal. After him are John Major, Eric A. Havelock, Abram Deborin, Bas van Fraassen, Gary L. Francione, and Pat Robertson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, F. C. S. Schiller ranks 134Before him are Sándor Simonyi-Semadam, Friedrich Gustav Piffl, Alice Tegnér, Alberto Nepomuceno, Toros Toramanian, and Jakob Emanuel Lange. After him are William S. Hart, Miina Härma, Stanley Maude, Alice Davenport, Willoughby Hamilton, and Reginald Dyer. Among people deceased in 1937, F. C. S. Schiller ranks 136Before him are Walter Burley Griffin, Nikolai Klyuev, Axel Bakunts, Marguerite Audoux, Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj, and Colin Clive. After him are Antônio Parreiras, Anastasios Metaxas, Juan Campisteguy, Wilhelm Weinberg, Colin Campbell Cooper, and R. J. Mitchell.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, F. C. S. Schiller ranks 4,242 out of 6,142Before him are Gerhard Lamprecht (1897), Emmanuel Scheffer (1924), Jakob Emanuel Lange (1864), Martin Bangemann (1934), Georg Buschner (1925), and Walburga Habsburg Douglas (1958). After him are Princess Marie of Baden (1834), Karl Moritz Schumann (1851), Gustav Fischer (1848), Johannes Wislicenus (1835), Harry Benjamin (1885), and Theodor von Heuglin (1824).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, F. C. S. Schiller ranks 130Before him are Gottlob Ernst Schulze (1761), Immanuel Hermann Fichte (1796), Paul Deussen (1845), Martin Chemnitz (1522), Hermann Gunkel (1862), and Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (1930). After him are Volker Zotz (1956), Walter Kaufmann (1921), and Richard David Precht (1964).