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PHILOSOPHER

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 27,582 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster is the 1,005th most popular philosopher (down from 967th in 2019), the 3,744th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,439th in 2019) and the 123rd most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster ranks 1,005 out of 1,081Before him are Achille Mbembe, Patricia Churchland, Wilhelm Gesenius, Hector Boece, Tariq Ramadan, and Rüdiger Safranski. After him are Ivan Aksakov, Yun Hyu, Alois Riehl, Sosipatra, Gottlob Ernst Schulze, and Hicetas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster ranks 108Before him are Aleš Hrdlička, Hendrikus Colijn, Bhagwan Das, Mary Agnes Chase, Henry Wood, and Harald Sohlberg. After him are Yervant Odian, Marcel Cachin, Augusto Tasso Fragoso, Gerrit Smith Miller, Kálmán Kandó, and Daniel Salamanca Urey. Among people deceased in 1966, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster ranks 129Before him are Emil Julius Gumbel, John Taylor, Dirk Brouwer, Robert Charpentier, Mississippi John Hurt, and Eva Justin. After him are Brian O'Nolan, Anna Langfus, Cordwainer Smith, Elizabeth Christ Trump, Alfred Berger, and Reino Ragnar Lehto.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster ranks 3,744 out of 6,142Before him are Eva Justin (1909), Eva Hesse (1936), Princess Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1663), Georg von Habsburg (1964), Vladimir Lossky (1903), and Ferdinand Reich (1799). After him are Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen (1697), Inge Borkh (1921), Ludwig Bieberbach (1886), Irm Hermann (1942), Gustav Lange (1830), and Uwe Timm (1940).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster ranks 123Before him are Heymann Steinthal (1823), Josef Pieper (1904), Friedrich Paulsen (1846), Robert Spaemann (1927), Wilhelm Gesenius (1786), and Rüdiger Safranski (1945). After him are Gottlob Ernst Schulze (1761), Immanuel Hermann Fichte (1796), Paul Deussen (1845), Martin Chemnitz (1522), Hermann Gunkel (1862), and Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (1930).