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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 550,030 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Hans Kelsen is the 145th most popular philosopher (up from 190th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 36th 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 145 out of 1,081Before him are Edith Stein, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Clement of Alexandria, Simone Weil, György Lukács, and Martin Buber. After him are Duns Scotus, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Kabir, Jean Baudrillard, Herbert Marcuse, and Hippias.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Hans Kelsen ranks 11Before him are Stefan Zweig, Béla Bartók, Anna Pavlova, Kliment Voroshilov, Lu Xun, and Enver Pasha. After him are Ludwig von Mises, Alexander Kerensky, Roger Martin du Gard, Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, Clinton Davisson, and Walther von Brauchitsch. Among people deceased in 1973, Hans Kelsen ranks 13Before him are Erich von Manstein, Lyndon B. Johnson, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Fulgencio Batista, Pearl S. Buck, and Ivan Konev. After him are İsmet İnönü, Walter Ulbricht, Ludwig von Mises, John Ford, Abebe Bikila, and Paavo Nurmi.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Hans Kelsen ranks 28 out of 973Before him are Wilhelm Steinitz (1836), Arthur Seyss-Inquart (1892), Joseph Radetzky von Radetz (1766), Miloš Zeman (1944), Edvard Beneš (1884), and Bertha von Suttner (1843). After him are Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850), Jan Žižka (1360), Jaroslav Hašek (1883), Leoš Janáček (1854), Adolf Loos (1870), and Karl Kautsky (1854).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Czechia

Among philosophers born in Czechia, Hans Kelsen ranks 3Before him are John Amos Comenius (1592) and Edmund Husserl (1859). After him are Karl Kautsky (1854), Bernard Bolzano (1781), Jerome of Prague (1379), Vilém Flusser (1920), Jan Patočka (1907), Karel Kosík (1926), František Tomášek (1899), Tomáš Halík (1948), and Egon Bondy (1930).