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Helmuth Plessner

1892 - 1985

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Helmuth Plessner (4 September 1892, Wiesbaden – 12 June 1985, Göttingen) was a German philosopher and sociologist, and a primary advocate of "philosophical anthropology". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helmuth Plessner has received more than 77,803 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Helmuth Plessner is the 695th most popular philosopher (down from 657th in 2019), the 2,117th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,975th in 2019) and the 94th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Helmuth Plessner ranks 695 out of 1,267. Before him are Alvin Plantinga, Hakuin Ekaku, François Bernier, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Jerry Fodor, and Francesco Algarotti. After him are Chandrakirti, Étienne-Gabriel Morelly, Onesicritus, Ludwig Klages, Pantaenus, and Numenius of Apamea.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Helmuth Plessner ranks 103. Before him are Dietrich von Saucken, Edoardo Agnelli, Ludwig Crüwell, Erich Brandenberger, Mahidol Adulyadej, and Harry Dexter White. After him are Herman Potočnik, James M. Cain, Karl Lennart Oesch, Josyf Slipyj, Eugen Meindl, and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven. Among people deceased in 1985, Helmuth Plessner ranks 71. Before him are Coral Buttsworth, Philly Joe Jones, Michael Redgrave, Kiki Camarena, Wolfgang Reitherman, and Alfredo Foni. After him are Birabongse Bhanudej, David Purley, Nicolas Frantz, Heinz Hoffmann, Fred Uhlman, and Denis de Rougemont.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Helmuth Plessner ranks 2,117 out of 7,253. Before him are Matthias Jabs (1955), Anne-Sophie Mutter (1963), Karl Rapp (1882), William, Prince of Hohenzollern (1864), Walter Sickert (1860), and Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel (1809). After him are Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel (1627), Edmund Heines (1897), Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871), Gershon Kingsley (1922), Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony (1730), and Judith of Schweinfurt (1003).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Helmuth Plessner ranks 94. Before him are Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769), Franz Xaver von Baader (1765), Johannes Nikolaus Tetens (1736), Alfred Schmidt (1931), Rudolph Goclenius (1547), and Johannes Sturm (1507). After him are Ludwig Klages (1872), Arnold Ruge (1802), Theodor Lessing (1872), Paul de Lagarde (1827), Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg (1802), and Albert of Saxony (1316).

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