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PHILOSOPHER

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 69,917 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Helmuth Plessner is the 657th most popular philosopher (down from 650th in 2019), the 1,977th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,928th in 2019) and the 89th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Helmuth Plessner ranks 657 out of 1,081Before him are Hermann Samuel Reimarus, Gaius Marius Victorinus, Theodor Lipps, Aristo of Chios, Thomas Hill Green, and Louis Couturat. After him are Cheng Yi, Robert Filmer, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Bharadwaja, Olympiodorus the Younger, and Svetozar Marković.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Helmuth Plessner ranks 97Before him are Charles Vanel, Konstantin Paustovsky, Alice Ball, Harry Dexter White, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai, and Ludwig Crüwell. After him are Dietrich von Saucken, Gustav-Adolf von Zangen, Vita Sackville-West, Radola Gajda, Josyf Slipyj, and Robert H. Jackson. Among people deceased in 1985, Helmuth Plessner ranks 63Before him are Birabongse Bhanudej, Ricky Nelson, Karl-Adolf Hollidt, Axel Springer, Abe Lenstra, and David Purley. After him are Nicolas Frantz, Philly Joe Jones, Eugene Ormandy, Fred Uhlman, Matti Järvinen, and Denis de Rougemont.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Helmuth Plessner ranks 1,977 out of 6,142Before him are Louis IV, Elector Palatine (1424), Gottfried Silbermann (1683), Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803), Wilhelm Adam (1877), Veit Harlan (1899), and Wilhelm Schmidt (1868). After him are Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck (1948), Princess Isabella of Bavaria (1863), Joanna Sophia of Bavaria (1373), Anna Maria of the Palatinate (1561), Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein (1757), and Franz Aepinus (1724).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Helmuth Plessner ranks 89Before him are Ernst Nolte (1923), Andreas Karlstadt (1486), Franz Xaver von Baader (1765), Friedrich Albert Lange (1828), Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694), and Theodor Lipps (1851). After him are Alfred Schmidt (1931), Rudolph Goclenius (1547), Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588), Ludwig Klages (1872), Albert of Saxony (1316), and Arnold Ruge (1802).