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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 Society for Sociology 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 390,510 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Ferdinand Tönnies is the 158th most popular philosopher (up from 171st in 2019), the 249th most popular biography from Germany (up from 254th in 2019) and the 27th 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 1,081Before him are Adi Shankara, John Wycliffe, Louis Althusser, Ernst Cassirer, Christian Wolff, and Adam Weishaupt. After him are Max Stirner, Mikhail Bakhtin, Padmasambhava, Cesare Beccaria, Carl Schmitt, and Friedrich Schleiermacher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Ferdinand Tönnies ranks 1After him are Archduchess Sophie of Austria, John Browning, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Otto Liman von Sanders, Émile Verhaeren, Ernest Chausson, Eleanor Marx, Percival Lowell, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, Paul Deschanel, and Ned Kelly. Among people deceased in 1936, Ferdinand Tönnies ranks 9Before him are Federico García Lorca, George V, Rudyard Kipling, Oswald Spengler, Luigi Pirandello, and Lu Xun. After him are Lev Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev, Eleftherios Venizelos, Albert Fish, G. K. Chesterton, and Alexander Glazunov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ferdinand Tönnies ranks 249 out of 6,142Before him are Martin Niemöller (1892), Kurt von Schleicher (1882), Irma Grese (1923), Joachim Gauck (1940), Friedrich Ratzel (1844), and Adam Weishaupt (1748). After him are Ernst Jünger (1895), Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (1887), Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine (1652), Max Stirner (1806), Julius Streicher (1885), and Helmut Schmidt (1918).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Ferdinand Tönnies ranks 27Before him are Baron d'Holbach (1723), Wilhelm Dilthey (1833), Edith Stein (1891), Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714), Herbert Marcuse (1898), and Adam Weishaupt (1748). After him are Max Stirner (1806), Carl Schmitt (1888), Max Scheler (1874), Max Horkheimer (1895), Athanasius Kircher (1602), and Rudolf Carnap (1891).