1900 - 2002
Hans-Georg Gadamer (; German: [ˈɡaːdamɐ]; 11 February 1900 – 13 March 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus, Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode), on hermeneutics. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans-Georg Gadamer has received more than 716,401 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Hans-Georg Gadamer is the 122nd most popular philosopher (down from 120th in 2019), the 155th most popular biography from Germany (down from 152nd in 2019) and the 18th most popular German Philosopher.
Hans-Georg Gadamer is most famous for his work in hermeneutics. He was a German philosopher who argued that interpretation is always in the context of the present.
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Among philosophers, Hans-Georg Gadamer ranks 122 out of 1,081. Before him are George Gurdjieff, Emil Cioran, Johann Friedrich Herbart, Zygmunt Bauman, Antisthenes, and Ramon Llull. After him are Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Tommaso Campanella, Marsilio Ficino, Mozi, Chanakya, and Oswald Spengler.
1866 - 1949
HPI: 72.81
Rank: 116
1911 - 1995
HPI: 72.73
Rank: 117
1776 - 1841
HPI: 72.52
Rank: 118
1925 - 2017
HPI: 72.45
Rank: 119
445 BC - 365 BC
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 120
1232 - 1316
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 121
1900 - 2002
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 122
1703 - 1792
HPI: 72.36
Rank: 123
1568 - 1639
HPI: 72.31
Rank: 124
1433 - 1499
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 125
470 BC - 391 BC
HPI: 72.06
Rank: 126
375 BC - 283 BC
HPI: 71.99
Rank: 127
1880 - 1936
HPI: 71.99
Rank: 128
Among people born in 1900, Hans-Georg Gadamer ranks 9. Before him are Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Martin Bormann, Erich Fromm, Luis Buñuel, Wolfgang Pauli, and Frédéric Joliot-Curie. After him are Hans Frank, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Spencer Tracy, Heinrich Müller, Vasily Chuikov, and Margaret Mitchell. Among people deceased in 2002, Hans-Georg Gadamer ranks 7. Before him are Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, Astrid Lindgren, Simo Häyhä, Pierre Bourdieu, and Thor Heyerdahl. After him are John Rawls, Billy Wilder, Richard Harris, Vavá, Prince Claus of the Netherlands, and Traudl Junge.
1900 - 2002
HPI: 79.31
Rank: 3
1900 - 1945
HPI: 77.28
Rank: 4
1900 - 1980
HPI: 77.25
Rank: 5
1900 - 1983
HPI: 74.56
Rank: 6
1900 - 1958
HPI: 72.86
Rank: 7
1900 - 1958
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 8
1900 - 2002
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 9
1900 - 1946
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 10
1900 - 1979
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 11
1900 - 1967
HPI: 70.83
Rank: 12
1900 - 1945
HPI: 70.21
Rank: 13
1900 - 1982
HPI: 70.06
Rank: 14
1900 - 1949
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 15
1900 - 2002
HPI: 79.31
Rank: 1
1930 - 2002
HPI: 78.57
Rank: 2
1907 - 2002
HPI: 78.36
Rank: 3
1905 - 2002
HPI: 76.07
Rank: 4
1930 - 2002
HPI: 75.53
Rank: 5
1914 - 2002
HPI: 73.16
Rank: 6
1900 - 2002
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 7
1921 - 2002
HPI: 71.69
Rank: 8
1906 - 2002
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 9
1930 - 2002
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 10
1934 - 2002
HPI: 67.98
Rank: 11
1926 - 2002
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 12
1920 - 2002
HPI: 67.44
Rank: 13
Among people born in Germany, Hans-Georg Gadamer ranks 155 out of 6,142. Before him are Frederick William III of Prussia (1770), Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714), Alois Alzheimer (1864), Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776), Friedrich Ebert (1871), and Pope Joan (null). After him are Georg Simmel (1858), Max Müller (1823), Frederick William IV of Prussia (1795), Friedrich Wöhler (1800), Hans Frank (1900), and Friedrich Hölderlin (1770).
1770 - 1840
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 149
1714 - 1788
HPI: 72.58
Rank: 150
1864 - 1915
HPI: 72.56
Rank: 151
1776 - 1841
HPI: 72.52
Rank: 152
1871 - 1925
HPI: 72.46
Rank: 153
HPI: 72.40
Rank: 154
1900 - 2002
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 155
1858 - 1918
HPI: 72.38
Rank: 156
1823 - 1900
HPI: 72.38
Rank: 157
1795 - 1861
HPI: 72.34
Rank: 158
1800 - 1882
HPI: 72.32
Rank: 159
1900 - 1946
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 160
1770 - 1843
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 161
Among philosophers born in Germany, Hans-Georg Gadamer ranks 18. Before him are Carl von Clausewitz (1780), Walter Benjamin (1892), Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767), Friedrich Fröbel (1782), Meister Eckhart (1260), and Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776). After him are Oswald Spengler (1880), Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846), Baron d'Holbach (1723), Wilhelm Dilthey (1833), Edith Stein (1891), and Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714).
1780 - 1831
HPI: 75.15
Rank: 12
1892 - 1940
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 13
1767 - 1835
HPI: 73.66
Rank: 14
1782 - 1852
HPI: 73.34
Rank: 15
1260 - 1328
HPI: 73.00
Rank: 16
1776 - 1841
HPI: 72.52
Rank: 17
1900 - 2002
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 18
1880 - 1936
HPI: 71.99
Rank: 19
1846 - 1926
HPI: 71.73
Rank: 20
1723 - 1789
HPI: 71.73
Rank: 21
1833 - 1911
HPI: 71.70
Rank: 22
1891 - 1942
HPI: 71.33
Rank: 23
1714 - 1762
HPI: 70.94
Rank: 24