PHILOSOPHER

Hermann Lietz

1868 - 1919

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Hermann Lietz (28 April 1868, in Dumgenevitz on Rügen – 12 June 1919, in Haubinda) was a German educational progressive and theologian who founded the German Landerziehungsheime für Jungen (country boarding schools). In 1898 he taught at the progressive Abbotsholme School for boys, founded in Derbyshire, England, in 1889 by Cecil Reddie. Lietz was impressed by the Abbotsholme system of education, which combined comprehensive individual instruction with physical exercise and recreation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann Lietz has received more than 18,788 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Lietz is the 1,181st most popular philosopher, the 4,910th most popular biography from Germany and the 146th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Hermann Lietz ranks 1,181 out of 1,267. Before him are Bernard Lonergan, Edward Abramowski, Michael Ruse, Buddhapālita, Vicente Ferreira da Silva, and Leila Ahmed. After him are Iris Marion Young, William Chittick, Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Richard Price, Judith Jarvis Thomson, and David Malet Armstrong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Hermann Lietz ranks 173. Before him are Kenjirō Tokutomi, Achille Paroche, José Serrato, Edward Abramowski, Kitamura Tokoku, and Charles Wallace Richmond. After him are Hélène de Pourtalès, Grace Chisholm Young, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Émile Fisseux, Karl Röderer, and Harvey S. Firestone. Among people deceased in 1919, Hermann Lietz ranks 138. Before him are Robert Bacon, Napoleon Cybulski, Franz Steindachner, Manuel Franco, Petre P. Carp, and Valerian Albanov. After him are Camille Erlanger, George Eyser, Huseyn Arablinski, Charles Conrad Abbott, Henning von Holtzendorff, and William Michael Rossetti.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Lietz ranks 4,910 out of 7,253. Before him are Gabriele Zimmer (1955), Rainer Ludwig Claisen (1851), Ellen von Unwerth (1954), Arno Arthur Wachmann (1902), Edin Terzić (1982), and Fritz Herkenrath (1928). After him are Christopher Cockerell (1910), Karin Baal (1940), Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers (1816), Jörg Lucke (1942), Erhard Keller (1944), and Matthias Reim (1957).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Hermann Lietz ranks 146. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster (1869), Friedrich Eduard Beneke (1798), Martin Chemnitz (1522), Friedrich Gogarten (1887), Dieter Henrich (1927), and F. C. S. Schiller (1864). After him are Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (1930), Walter Kaufmann (1921), Volker Zotz (1956), and Richard David Precht (1964).

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