PHILOSOPHER

Hans Blumenberg

1920 - 1996

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Hans Blumenberg (born 13 July 1920, Lübeck – 28 March 1996, Altenberge) was a German philosopher and intellectual historian. He studied philosophy, German studies and the classics (1939–47, interrupted by World War II) and is considered to be one of the most important German philosophers of the century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Blumenberg has received more than 153,860 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Hans Blumenberg is the 525th most popular philosopher (up from 574th in 2019), the 1,451st most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,677th in 2019) and the 69th most popular German Philosopher.

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Hans Blumenberg ranks 525 out of 1,267. Before him are Louis Couturat, William of Champeaux, Eduard Spranger, Émile Chartier, Shen Buhai, and Henry Corbin. After him are Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Metrodorus of Lampsacus, Georg Henrik von Wright, Abraham Isaac Kook, Zhou Dunyi, and Hippo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Hans Blumenberg ranks 85. Before him are Maurice Bucaille, Frank Sheeran, Gottfried Böhm, Mehdi Ben Barka, Peter D. Mitchell, and Mario Benedetti. After him are Henri Verneuil, José López Portillo y Pacheco, Jaan Kross, Franklin J. Schaffner, Karl Albrecht, and John Harsanyi. Among people deceased in 1996, Hans Blumenberg ranks 63. Before him are Lucio Fulci, Obdulio Varela, María Casares, Brigitte Helm, Helmut Schön, and Hideo Sakai. After him are Piet Hein, Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este, Leonor Fini, Virginia Henderson, Spiro Agnew, and Bob Paisley.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Blumenberg ranks 1,451 out of 7,253. Before him are John George IV, Elector of Saxony (1668), Saint Afra (300), Natalia Alexeievna (1755), Franz Walter Stahlecker (1900), Marie of Hesse-Kassel (1767), and Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1654). After him are John B. Goodenough (1922), Robert Prosinečki (1969), John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1575), Hans Scharoun (1893), Prince Charles of Prussia (1801), and Arnold Gehlen (1904).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Hans Blumenberg ranks 69. Before him are Carl Stumpf (1848), Karl-Otto Apel (1922), Hermann Lotze (1817), Karl Löwith (1897), Annemarie Schimmel (1922), and Eduard Spranger (1882). After him are Hans Vaihinger (1852), Karl Korsch (1886), Axel Honneth (1949), Eric Voegelin (1901), Andreas Karlstadt (1486), and Johann Bernhard Basedow (1723).

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