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Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster

1869 - 1966

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Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster (2 June 1869 – 9 January 1966) was a German academic, educationist, pacifist and philosopher, known for his public opposition to Nazism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster has received more than 30,217 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster is the 1,087th most popular philosopher (down from 1,005th in 2019), the 4,248th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,735th in 2019) and the 140th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster ranks 1,087 out of 1,267. Before him are Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet, Josef Pieper, Barrington Moore Jr., Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, Richard Posner, and Ladislav Klíma. After him are Carlo Cattaneo, Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi, Aristobulus of Alexandria, Ned Block, David Chalmers, and G. A. Cohen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster ranks 116. Before him are Georgette Leblanc, Henry Carton de Wiart, Wilhelm Heye, Ellen Thesleff, Rihard Jakopič, and Bhagwan Das. After him are Joshua Pim, Phoebus Levene, Yervant Odian, Sergey Chaplygin, Harald Sohlberg, and Henry Wood. Among people deceased in 1966, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster ranks 145. Before him are Ed Wynn, Yuri Shaporin, Anna Langfus, Dirk Brouwer, Emiliano Chamorro Vargas, and Stylianos Gonatas. After him are Brian O'Nolan, Sofya Yanovskaya, Santiago Lovell, Seán T. O'Kelly, Naima Akef, and Harry Beaumont.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster ranks 4,248 out of 7,253. Before him are Anton-Günther, Duke of Oldenburg (1923), Ernst Albrecht (1907), Ruth Westheimer (1928), Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald (1902), Gisela Arendt (1918), and Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient (1804). After him are Wolfgang Staudte (1906), Ernst, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1859), Rudi Fischer (1912), Kim Dotcom (1974), Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1849), and Angela Gossow (1974).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster ranks 140. Before him are Joachim Camerarius (1500), Max Dessoir (1867), Georg Anton Friedrich Ast (1778), Heymann Steinthal (1823), Adolf Grünbaum (1923), and Josef Pieper (1904). After him are Friedrich Eduard Beneke (1798), Martin Chemnitz (1522), Friedrich Gogarten (1887), Dieter Henrich (1927), F. C. S. Schiller (1864), and Hermann Lietz (1868).

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