1885 - 1971
György Lukács (born György Bernát Löwinger; Hungarian: szegedi Lukács György Bernát; German: Georg Bernard Baron Lukács von Szegedin; 13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, literary critic, and aesthetician. He was one of the founders of Western Marxism, an interpretive tradition that departed from the Soviet Marxist ideological orthodoxy. He developed the theory of reification, and contributed to Marxist theory with developments of Karl Marx's theory of class consciousness. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of György Lukács has received more than 1,038,665 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 54 in 2019). György Lukács is the 143rd most popular philosopher (down from 138th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Hungary (down from 20th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Hungarian Philosopher.
György Lukács is most famous for his Marxist interpretation of Hegelian dialectics.
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Among philosophers, György Lukács ranks 143 out of 1,081. Before him are Isocrates, Zhu Xi, Edith Stein, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Clement of Alexandria, and Simone Weil. After him are Martin Buber, Hans Kelsen, Duns Scotus, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Kabir, and Jean Baudrillard.
436 BC - 338 BC
HPI: 71.57
Rank: 137
1130 - 1200
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 138
1891 - 1942
HPI: 71.33
Rank: 139
1895 - 1986
HPI: 71.26
Rank: 140
150 - 215
HPI: 71.24
Rank: 141
1909 - 1943
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 142
1885 - 1971
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 143
1878 - 1965
HPI: 71.12
Rank: 144
1881 - 1973
HPI: 71.03
Rank: 145
1265 - 1308
HPI: 71.00
Rank: 146
1714 - 1762
HPI: 70.94
Rank: 147
1440 - 1518
HPI: 70.60
Rank: 148
1929 - 2007
HPI: 70.57
Rank: 149
Among people born in 1885, György Lukács ranks 3. Before him are Niels Bohr and Karen Blixen. After him are Albert Kesselring, Hermann Hoth, Alban Berg, Julius Streicher, François Mauriac, Ezra Pound, Faisal I of Iraq, George S. Patton, and Robert Delaunay. Among people deceased in 1971, György Lukács ranks 6. Before him are Nikita Khrushchev, Coco Chanel, Igor Stravinsky, Louis Armstrong, and Jim Morrison. After him are Hermann Hoth, Audie Murphy, Lawrence Bragg, Fernandel, Theodor Svedberg, and Rudolf Abel.
1885 - 1962
HPI: 80.71
Rank: 1
1885 - 1962
HPI: 72.64
Rank: 2
1885 - 1971
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 3
1885 - 1960
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 4
1885 - 1971
HPI: 70.27
Rank: 5
1885 - 1935
HPI: 70.23
Rank: 6
1885 - 1946
HPI: 69.95
Rank: 7
1885 - 1970
HPI: 69.34
Rank: 8
1885 - 1972
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 9
1885 - 1933
HPI: 69.27
Rank: 10
1885 - 1945
HPI: 69.00
Rank: 11
1885 - 1941
HPI: 68.92
Rank: 12
1894 - 1971
HPI: 83.74
Rank: 1
1883 - 1971
HPI: 82.18
Rank: 2
1882 - 1971
HPI: 80.13
Rank: 3
1901 - 1971
HPI: 78.58
Rank: 4
1943 - 1971
HPI: 75.49
Rank: 5
1885 - 1971
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 6
1885 - 1971
HPI: 70.27
Rank: 7
1925 - 1971
HPI: 69.28
Rank: 8
1890 - 1971
HPI: 69.26
Rank: 9
1903 - 1971
HPI: 68.98
Rank: 10
1884 - 1971
HPI: 67.67
Rank: 11
1903 - 1971
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 12
Among people born in Hungary, György Lukács ranks 22 out of 866. Before him are Louis I of Hungary (1326), Imre Kertész (1929), Jadwiga of Poland (1374), Count of St. Germain (1712), Robert Capa (1913), and Árpád (845). After him are Victor Vasarely (1906), Ernő Rubik (1944), Ilona Staller (1951), Andrew II of Hungary (1175), Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (1868), and Mary, Queen of Hungary (1371).
1326 - 1382
HPI: 72.65
Rank: 16
1929 - 2016
HPI: 72.44
Rank: 17
1374 - 1399
HPI: 72.38
Rank: 18
1712 - 1784
HPI: 72.31
Rank: 19
1913 - 1954
HPI: 72.01
Rank: 20
845 - 907
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 21
1885 - 1971
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 22
1906 - 1997
HPI: 70.72
Rank: 23
1944 - Present
HPI: 70.08
Rank: 24
1951 - Present
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 25
1175 - 1235
HPI: 69.84
Rank: 26
1868 - 1924
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 27
1371 - 1395
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 28
Among philosophers born in Hungary, György Lukács ranks 2. Before him are Rudolf Steiner (1861). After him are Imre Lakatos (1922), Ágnes Heller (1929), Ervin László (1932), George Gerbner (1919), Thomas Sebeok (1920), and Stanley Jaki (1924).
1861 - 1925
HPI: 76.82
Rank: 1
1885 - 1971
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 2
1922 - 1974
HPI: 66.95
Rank: 3
1929 - 2019
HPI: 60.83
Rank: 4
1932 - Present
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 5
1919 - 2005
HPI: 50.42
Rank: 6
1920 - 2001
HPI: 46.53
Rank: 7
1924 - 2009
HPI: 44.65
Rank: 8