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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 143,993 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Hans Blumenberg is the 574th most popular philosopher (up from 719th in 2019), the 1,677th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,187th in 2019) and the 77th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Hans Blumenberg ranks 574 out of 1,081. Before him are Eric Voegelin, Paul Virilio, Zhang Daoling, Barlaam of Seminara, Yang Zhu, and Thomas Reid. After him are Narayana Guru, Hermann Lotze, Dignāga, Arete of Cyrene, Diogenes of Babylon, and Gongsun Long.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Hans Blumenberg ranks 98. Before him are Marcial Maciel, Gottfried Böhm, P. D. James, Meliton Kantaria, Väinö Linna, and Jaan Kross. After him are Ricardo Montalbán, Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Henrietta Lacks, Saul Bass, Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, and Luisa Cuesta. Among people deceased in 1996, Hans Blumenberg ranks 76. Before him are Michel Debré, Obdulio Varela, Mary Leakey, Bob Paisley, Greer Garson, and Spiro Agnew. After him are Zeki Müren, Saul Bass, Pavel Sudoplatov, Jack Churchill, Ben Johnson, and Neelam Sanjiva Reddy.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Blumenberg ranks 1,677 out of 6,142. Before him are Ferdinand Hiller (1811), Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau (1833), Carl Gustav Carus (1789), Josef Bühler (1904), Max Joseph von Pettenkofer (1818), and Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia (1719). After him are Else Lasker-Schüler (1869), Kurt Gerron (1897), Carl Ludwig (1816), Marianne Weber (1870), Johannes Steinhoff (1913), and William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (1516).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Hans Blumenberg ranks 77. Before him are Eugen Fink (1905), Eduard Spranger (1882), Werner Jaeger (1888), Ludwig Büchner (1824), Johann Bernhard Basedow (1723), and Eric Voegelin (1901). After him are Hermann Lotze (1817), Constantin von Tischendorf (1815), Johannes Sturm (1507), Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769), Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781), and Ernst Nolte (1923).

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