1852 - 1933
Hans Vaihinger (German: [hans ˈfaɪɪŋɐ]; September 25, 1852 – December 18, 1933) was a German philosopher, best known as a Kant scholar and for his Die Philosophie des Als Ob (The Philosophy of 'As if'), published in 1911 although its statement of basic principles had been written more than thirty years earlier. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Vaihinger has received more than 96,370 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Hans Vaihinger is the 504th most popular philosopher (up from 594th in 2019), the 1,420th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,672nd in 2019) and the 67th most popular German Philosopher.
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Among philosophers, Hans Vaihinger ranks 504 out of 1,081. Before him are Axel Honneth, Tom Regan, Bion of Borysthenes, A. J. Ayer, Hasdai Crescas, and Murray Bookchin. After him are Zeno of Sidon, Harriet Taylor Mill, Victor Cousin, Vasishtha, Liu Bowen, and André Gorz.
1949 - Present
HPI: 58.63
Rank: 498
1938 - 2017
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 499
325 BC - 246 BC
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 500
1910 - 1989
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 501
1340 - 1410
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 502
1921 - 2006
HPI: 58.42
Rank: 503
1852 - 1933
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 504
150 BC - 75 BC
HPI: 58.40
Rank: 505
1807 - 1858
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 506
1792 - 1867
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 507
2000 BC - 2000 BC
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 508
1311 - 1375
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 509
1923 - 2007
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 510
Among people born in 1852, Hans Vaihinger ranks 30. Before him are H. H. Asquith, Paul Bourget, Christian Krohg, Terauchi Masatake, Edmund Leighton, and Daniel Burley Woolfall. After him are Hipólito Yrigoyen, Victor Adler, Ion Luca Caragiale, Pietro Gasparri, John Louis Emil Dreyer, and Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg. Among people deceased in 1933, Hans Vaihinger ranks 28. Before him are Knud Rasmussen, Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria, Henry Royce, Francesc Macià, and Louis Comfort Tiffany. After him are Kenji Miyazawa, Hipólito Yrigoyen, Raymond Roussel, Anagarika Dharmapala, Paul Painlevé, and Anna de Noailles.
1852 - 1928
HPI: 60.06
Rank: 24
1852 - 1935
HPI: 59.60
Rank: 25
1852 - 1925
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 26
1852 - 1919
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 27
1852 - 1922
HPI: 59.28
Rank: 28
1852 - 1918
HPI: 58.47
Rank: 29
1852 - 1933
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 30
1852 - 1933
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 31
1852 - 1918
HPI: 57.90
Rank: 32
1852 - 1912
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 33
1852 - 1934
HPI: 57.17
Rank: 34
1852 - 1926
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 35
1852 - 1931
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 36
1879 - 1933
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 22
1873 - 1933
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 23
1860 - 1933
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 24
1863 - 1933
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 25
1859 - 1933
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 26
1848 - 1933
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 27
1852 - 1933
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 28
1896 - 1933
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 29
1852 - 1933
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 30
1877 - 1933
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 31
1864 - 1933
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 32
1863 - 1933
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 33
1876 - 1933
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 34
Among people born in Germany, Hans Vaihinger ranks 1,420 out of 6,142. Before him are Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849), Leonhart Fuchs (1501), Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia (1860), Horst Ludwig Störmer (1949), Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799), and Vasily Radlov (1837). After him are Reinhart Koselleck (1923), Thomas Tuchel (1973), Elisabeth of the Palatinate (1618), Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria (1654), Arthur Auwers (1838), and Hannah Höch (1889).
1849 - 1917
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 1,414
1501 - 1566
HPI: 58.44
Rank: 1,415
1860 - 1917
HPI: 58.44
Rank: 1,416
1949 - Present
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 1,417
1799 - 1868
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 1,418
1837 - 1918
HPI: 58.42
Rank: 1,419
1852 - 1933
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 1,420
1923 - 2006
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 1,421
1973 - Present
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 1,422
1618 - 1680
HPI: 58.39
Rank: 1,423
1654 - 1689
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 1,424
1838 - 1915
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 1,425
1889 - 1978
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 1,426
Among philosophers born in Germany, Hans Vaihinger ranks 67. Before him are Ernst Troeltsch (1865), Leo Strauss (1899), Karl Löwith (1897), Karl-Otto Apel (1922), Annemarie Schimmel (1922), and Axel Honneth (1949). After him are Karl Korsch (1886), Carl Stumpf (1848), Conrad Celtes (1459), Eugen Fink (1905), Eduard Spranger (1882), and Werner Jaeger (1888).
1865 - 1923
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 61
1899 - 1973
HPI: 59.48
Rank: 62
1897 - 1973
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 63
1922 - 2017
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 64
1922 - 2003
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 65
1949 - Present
HPI: 58.63
Rank: 66
1852 - 1933
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 67
1886 - 1961
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 68
1848 - 1936
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 69
1459 - 1508
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 70
1905 - 1975
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 71
1882 - 1963
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 72
1888 - 1961
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 73