PHILOSOPHER

Hans Albert

1921 - 2023

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Hans Albert (8 February 1921 – 24 October 2023) was a German philosopher. He was professor of social sciences at the University of Mannheim from 1963, and remained at the university until 1989. His fields of research were social sciences and general studies of methods. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Albert has received more than 152,385 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Hans Albert is the 600th most popular philosopher (up from 802nd in 2019), the 1,703rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,607th in 2019) and the 79th most popular German Philosopher.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Hans Albert ranks 600 out of 1,267. Before him are Yang Zhu, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai, Bardaisan, Aeschines of Sphettus, Arne Næss, and Salomon Maimon. After him are Maurice Blondel, Hu Shih, Abhinavagupta, Paul Nizan, Peter Deunov, and Thomas Reid.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Hans Albert ranks 101. Before him are Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Ariel Ramírez, Jim Garrison, Raymond Goethals, Neslişah Sultan, and Nino Manfredi. After him are Jean-Marie Balestre, Mary Douglas, John Money, Nobuo Matsunaga, George Roy Hill, and James Clavell. Among people deceased in 2023, Hans Albert ranks 133. Before him are Ray Stevenson, Howard S. Becker, Kevin Mitnick, David Crosby, Abdul Ati al-Obeidi, and David Albahari. After him are Nina Matviienko, Suzanne Somers, Denny Laine, A. S. Byatt, Wayne Shorter, and Concha Velasco.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Albert ranks 1,703 out of 7,253. Before him are Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld (1651), Anna of Saxony (1544), Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg (1547), Heino (1938), Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736), and John Heartfield (1891). After him are Joschka Fischer (1948), Andreas Achenbach (1815), Gisela of Swabia (990), Hans Berger (1873), Christian Thielemann (1959), and Uri Avnery (1923).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Hans Albert ranks 79. Before him are Eric Voegelin (1901), Andreas Karlstadt (1486), Johann Bernhard Basedow (1723), Ludwig Büchner (1824), Conrad Celtes (1459), and Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781). After him are Constantin von Tischendorf (1815), Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694), Werner Jaeger (1888), Theodor Lipps (1851), Philipp Mainländer (1841), and Ernst Nolte (1923).

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