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PHILOSOPHER

Gershom Scholem

1897 - 1982

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Gershom Scholem (Hebrew: גֵרְשׁׂם שָׁלוֹם) (5 December 1897 – 21 February 1982) was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gershom Scholem has received more than 422,796 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Gershom Scholem is the 374th most popular philosopher (up from 376th in 2019), the 896th most popular biography from Germany (down from 876th in 2019) and the 50th most popular German Philosopher.

Gershom Scholem is most famous for his work in the field of Jewish mysticism.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Gershom Scholem ranks 374 out of 1,081. Before him are H. L. A. Hart, Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Gennadius Scholarius, Jean Gerson, and Haji Bektash Veli. After him are John Philoponus, Pierre d'Ailly, Cleobulus, George Santayana, Maurice Halbwachs, and Abu Yusuf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Gershom Scholem ranks 44. Before him are Paul Delvaux, Margaret Mahler, Plaek Phibunsongkhram, Vlado Chernozemski, Joseph Berchtold, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold. After him are Leonid Govorov, Vasily Sokolovsky, Emil Maurice, Herbert Gille, Dmitry Pavlov, and Georg Wittig. Among people deceased in 1982, Gershom Scholem ranks 46. Before him are Walther Wenck, Lee Strasberg, Peter Weiss, E. H. Carr, William Giauque, and Varlam Shalamov. After him are Walter Hallstein, Anna German, Hermann Balck, Vinoba Bhave, Bachir Gemayel, and Philip Noel-Baker.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gershom Scholem ranks 896 out of 6,142. Before him are Wied, Prince of Albania (1876), Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1927), Frei Otto (1925), Gottlob Berger (1896), Engelbert Humperdinck (1854), and Günther Rall (1918). After him are Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755), Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1671), Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (1946), Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (1635), Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1370), and Reinhard Scheer (1863).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Gershom Scholem ranks 50. Before him are David Strauss (1808), Moritz Schlick (1882), Hermann Cohen (1842), Wilhelm Windelband (1848), Moses Hess (1812), and Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann (1842). After him are Karl Rahner (1904), Johannes Althusius (1563), Paul Natorp (1854), Christian Thomasius (1655), Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach (1775), and Carl Gustav Hempel (1905).

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