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 454,141 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Gershom Scholem is the 372nd most popular philosopher (up from 374th in 2019), the 904th most popular biography from Germany (down from 896th 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 372 out of 1,267. Before him are Alexandre Kojève, Ban Zhao, John Searle, Nasir Khusraw, Francis Hutcheson, and Jean Gerson. After him are Richard Avenarius, Nicephorus Gregoras, Leo Strauss, Ágnes Heller, Gennadius Scholarius, and Hilary Putnam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Gershom Scholem ranks 46. Before him are Kirill Meretskov, Vlado Chernozemski, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Joseph Berchtold, John Franklin Enders, and Leonid Govorov. After him are John Cockcroft, Margaret Mahler, Emil Maurice, Vasily Sokolovsky, Ye Jianying, and Herbert Gille. Among people deceased in 1982, Gershom Scholem ranks 49. Before him are Lee Strasberg, Varlam Shalamov, Meša Selimović, Walter Hallstein, Peter Weiss, and Vladimir K. Zworykin. After him are E. H. Carr, Sobhuza II, Takashi Shimura, Thelonious Monk, Eduardo Frei Montalva, and Mario Del Monaco.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gershom Scholem ranks 904 out of 7,253. Before him are Gudrun Ensslin (1940), Götz von Berlichingen (1480), Otto I, Duke of Bavaria (1120), Maria Anna of Bavaria (1574), Ulrich von Jungingen (1360), and Rainer Weiss (1932). After him are Kurt Zeitzler (1895), Bertha Benz (1849), Günter Netzer (1944), Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal (1857), Max Delbrück (1906), and Ernst Chain (1906).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Gershom Scholem ranks 50. Before him are Rudolf Otto (1869), Moritz Schlick (1882), Moses Hess (1812), Hermann Cohen (1842), David Strauss (1808), and Wilhelm Windelband (1848). After him are Leo Strauss (1899), Karl Rahner (1904), Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann (1842), Christian Thomasius (1655), Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach (1775), and Peter Sloterdijk (1947).

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