PHILOSOPHER

Franz Neumann

1900 - 1954

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Franz Leopold Neumann (23 May 1900 – 2 September 1954) was a German political activist, Western Marxist theorist and labor lawyer, who became a political scientist in exile and is best known for his theoretical analyses of Nazism. He studied in Germany and the United Kingdom, and spent the last phase of his career in the United States, where he worked for the Office of Strategic Services from 1943 to 1945. During the Second World War, Neumann spied for the Soviet Union under the code-name "Ruff". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Neumann has received more than 7,431 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Neumann is the 797th most popular philosopher (up from 809th in 2019), the 548th most popular biography from Poland (up from 553rd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Polish Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Franz Neumann ranks 797 out of 1,267. Before him are Melchor Cano, Menedemus, Péter Pázmány, Vincenzo Gioberti, Timon of Athens, and Leo Löwenthal. After him are Bernard Stiegler, Kazimierz Łyszczyński, Francisco Sanches, Claude Lefort, Alain Finkielkraut, and Gargi Vachaknavi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Franz Neumann ranks 122. Before him are Vítězslav Nezval, Santos Urdinarán, Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, Alfred Newman, Luigi Longo, and Leo Löwenthal. After him are Hans Stuck, René Crevel, Fritz London, Alessandro Blasetti, Alexander Novikov, and Victor Young. Among people deceased in 1954, Franz Neumann ranks 59. Before him are Robert H. Jackson, Emil Leon Post, Wilhelm Schmidt, Princess Maria Ludwiga Theresia of Bavaria, Herms Niel, and Thành Thái. After him are Yehuda Ashlag, José Millán-Astray, Fritz London, Prince Ernst of Hohenberg, Mikimoto Kōkichi, and Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Franz Neumann ranks 548 out of 1,694. Before him are Richard Courant (1888), Peter Yorck von Wartenburg (1904), Paul Löbe (1875), Lidia Zamenhof (1904), Jerzy Andrzejewski (1909), and Kazys Grinius (1866). After him are Hans Stuck (1900), Yehuda Ashlag (1886), Johann Schobert (1720), Hagen Kleinert (1941), Emil Krebs (1867), and Jan Łaski (1499).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Poland

Among philosophers born in Poland, Franz Neumann ranks 22. Before him are Kuno Fischer (1824), Johannes Bugenhagen (1485), Florian Znaniecki (1882), John Cantius (1390), Symon Budny (1530), and Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928). After him are Józef Maria Bocheński (1902), Leo Baeck (1873), Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907), Stanisław Staszic (1755), Jerzy Żuławski (1874), and Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski (1503).

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