PHILOSOPHER

Hans Kelsen

1881 - 1973

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Hans Kelsen (; German: [ˈhans ˈkɛlsən]; October 11, 1881 – April 19, 1973) was an Austrian jurist, legal philosopher and political philosopher. He was the principal architect of the 1920 Austrian Constitution, which with amendments is still in operation. Due to the rise of totalitarianism in Austria (and a 1929 constitutional change), Kelsen left for Germany in 1930 but was forced out of his university post after the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 because of his Jewish ancestry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Kelsen has received more than 565,781 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Hans Kelsen is the 141st most popular philosopher (up from 145th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Czechia (down from 28th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Czech Philosopher.

Hans kelsen was most famous for his development of the law of conservation of energy, which states that energy can not be created or destroyed, but rather it is transferred from one form to another.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Hans Kelsen ranks 141 out of 1,267. Before him are Baron d'Holbach, Oswald Spengler, Duns Scotus, Martin Buber, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Giambattista Vico. After him are Porphyry, Emanuel Swedenborg, Edith Stein, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Christian Wolff, and Hippasus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Hans Kelsen ranks 11. Before him are Pope John XXIII, Béla Bartók, Asta Nielsen, Lu Xun, Anna Pavlova, and Alexander Kerensky. After him are Enver Pasha, Ludwig von Mises, Kliment Voroshilov, Walther von Brauchitsch, Roger Martin du Gard, and Clinton Davisson. Among people deceased in 1973, Hans Kelsen ranks 12. Before him are Pablo Neruda, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Erich von Manstein, Lyndon B. Johnson, Fulgencio Batista, and Abebe Bikila. After him are İsmet İnönü, Walter Ulbricht, J. Hans D. Jensen, Ivan Konev, Ludwig von Mises, and John Ford.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Hans Kelsen ranks 33 out of 1,200. Before him are Joseph Radetzky von Radetz (1766), Miloš Forman (1932), Jaroslav Hašek (1883), Edvard Beneš (1884), Václav Klaus (1941), and Arthur Seyss-Inquart (1892). After him are Leoš Janáček (1854), Ottokar II of Bohemia (1233), Jan Palach (1948), Miloš Zeman (1944), Klement Gottwald (1896), and Karl Kautsky (1854).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Czechia

Among philosophers born in Czechia, Hans Kelsen ranks 3. Before him are John Amos Comenius (1592), and Edmund Husserl (1859). After him are Karl Kautsky (1854), Bernard Bolzano (1781), Jerome of Prague (1379), Jan Patočka (1907), Vilém Flusser (1920), Karel Kosík (1926), Theodor Gomperz (1832), František Tomášek (1899), and Tomáš Halík (1948).

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