PHILOSOPHER

Ferdinand Tönnies

1855 - 1936

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Ferdinand Tönnies (German: [ˈtœniːs]; 26 July 1855 – 9 April 1936) was a German sociologist, economist, and philosopher. He was a significant contributor to sociological theory and field studies, best known for distinguishing between two types of social groups, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft (community and society). He co-founded the German Sociological Association together with Max Weber and Georg Simmel and many other founders. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferdinand Tönnies has received more than 416,284 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Ferdinand Tönnies is the 158th most popular philosopher, the 246th most popular biography from Germany (up from 249th in 2019) and the 29th most popular German Philosopher.

Ferdinand Tönnies is most famous for his book Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft, which he wrote in 1887. He is credited with the idea of "community" and "society."

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ferdinand Tönnies ranks 158 out of 1,267. Before him are Max Scheler, Clement of Alexandria, Herbert Marcuse, Carl Schmitt, Friedrich Schleiermacher, and John Rawls. After him are John Wycliffe, Hippias, Chrysippus, Sextus Empiricus, Kabir, and Han Fei.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Ferdinand Tönnies ranks 1. After him are Archduchess Sophie of Austria, Émile Verhaeren, Otto Liman von Sanders, John Browning, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Eleanor Marx, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, Ernest Chausson, Percival Lowell, Paul Deschanel, and Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal. Among people deceased in 1936, Ferdinand Tönnies ranks 12. Before him are Luigi Pirandello, Antoine Meillet, Lu Xun, Oswald Spengler, Alexander Glazunov, and Lev Kamenev. After him are Grigory Zinoviev, Fuad I of Egypt, Grazia Deledda, Eleftherios Venizelos, Miguel de Unamuno, and Albert Fish.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ferdinand Tönnies ranks 246 out of 7,253. Before him are Paul Heyse (1830), Herbert Marcuse (1898), Carl Schmitt (1888), Walther von Brauchitsch (1881), Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (1016), and Leopold von Ranke (1795). After him are Simone Signoret (1921), Albert Kesselring (1885), Alexandra Feodorovna (1872), Kurt von Schleicher (1882), Friedrich Ratzel (1844), and Heinrich von Kleist (1777).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Ferdinand Tönnies ranks 29. Before him are Edith Stein (1891), Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714), Max Stirner (1806), Max Scheler (1874), Herbert Marcuse (1898), and Carl Schmitt (1888). After him are Max Horkheimer (1895), Athanasius Kircher (1602), Moses Mendelssohn (1729), Adam Weishaupt (1748), Rudolf Carnap (1891), and Ernst Bloch (1885).

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