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PHILOSOPHER

Hannah Arendt

1906 - 1975

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Hannah Arendt (, US also , German: [ˌhana ˈaːʁənt] ; born Johanna Arendt; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German-American historian and philosopher. She was one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century. Her works cover a broad range of topics, but she is best known for those dealing with the nature of power and evil, as well as politics, direct democracy, authority, and totalitarianism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hannah Arendt has received more than 5,772,743 page views. Her biography is available in 84 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Hannah Arendt is the 54th most popular philosopher (down from 49th in 2019), the 47th most popular biography from Germany (down from 46th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Philosopher.

Hannah Arendt is most famous for her book "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil."

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Hannah Arendt ranks 54 out of 1,081. Before her are Ludwig Wittgenstein, John Amos Comenius, Zeno of Elea, Empedocles, Karl Popper, and Michel Foucault. After her are Lucretius, Plotinus, Henri Bergson, Anaxagoras, Herbert Spencer, and Mikhail Bakunin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Hannah Arendt ranks 3. Before her are Leonid Brezhnev and Adolf Eichmann. After her are Dmitri Shostakovich, Puyi, Samuel Beckett, Luchino Visconti, Grace Hopper, Josephine Baker, Aristotle Onassis, Kurt Gödel, and Ilse Koch. Among people deceased in 1975, Hannah Arendt ranks 2. Before her is Francisco Franco. After her are Dmitri Shostakovich, Chiang Kai-shek, Haile Selassie, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ivo Andrić, Josephine Baker, Aristotle Onassis, Otto Skorzeny, Umm Kulthum, and Arnold J. Toynbee.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hannah Arendt ranks 47 out of 6,142. Before her are Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912), Alexander von Humboldt (1769), Adolf Eichmann (1906), Felix Mendelssohn (1809), Bernhard Riemann (1826), and Marlene Dietrich (1901). After her are Bertolt Brecht (1898), Georg Ohm (1789), Thomas Mann (1875), Karl Benz (1844), Eva Braun (1912), and Werner Heisenberg (1901).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Hannah Arendt ranks 5. Before her are Friedrich Nietzsche (1844), Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770), Friedrich Engels (1820), and Martin Heidegger (1889). After her are Ludwig Feuerbach (1804), Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762), Karl Jaspers (1883), Jürgen Habermas (1929), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775), Nicholas of Cusa (1401), and Carl von Clausewitz (1780).

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