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Hermann Lotze

1817 - 1881

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Rudolf Hermann Lotze (; German: [ˈlɔtsə]; 21 May 1817 – 1 July 1881) was a German philosopher and logician. He also had a medical degree and was well versed in biology. He argued that if the physical world is governed by mechanical laws and relations, then developments in the universe could be explained as the functioning of a world mind. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann Lotze has received more than 148,738 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Hermann Lotze is the 497th most popular philosopher (up from 576th in 2019), the 1,325th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,684th in 2019) and the 65th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Hermann Lotze ranks 497 out of 1,267. Before him are Sivananda Saraswati, Carl Stumpf, Karl-Otto Apel, Pierre Duhem, Gorakhnath, and Antiochus of Ascalon. After him are Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Zengzi, Gaetano Mosca, Dicaearchus, Yi I, and Zhang Daoling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Hermann Lotze ranks 19. Before him are Pierre Larousse, Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Theodor Storm, and Austen Henry Layard. After him are C. H. D. Buys Ballot, Albert von Kölliker, Branwell Brontë, Táhirih, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, and Joseph Dalton Hooker. Among people deceased in 1881, Hermann Lotze ranks 20. Before him are Nikolay Pirogov, Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Nikolai Rubinstein, Empress Dowager Ci'an, Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg, and Theobald Boehm. After him are Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte, Eduard Heine, Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Ludwig von Benedek, and Archduchess Clementina of Austria.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Lotze ranks 1,325 out of 7,253. Before him are John George II, Elector of Saxony (1613), Walter Christaller (1893), Gerhard Ludwig Müller (1947), Max Amann (1891), Anne Christine of Sulzbach, Princess of Piedmont (1704), and Karl von Habsburg (1961). After him are Rudolf Brandt (1909), Widukind of Corvey (925), Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden (1790), Alexander von Kluck (1846), Lina Heydrich (1911), and Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Eutin (1673).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Hermann Lotze ranks 65. Before him are Johannes Althusius (1563), Paul Natorp (1854), Hans Reichenbach (1891), Ernst Troeltsch (1865), Carl Stumpf (1848), and Karl-Otto Apel (1922). After him are Karl Löwith (1897), Annemarie Schimmel (1922), Eduard Spranger (1882), Hans Blumenberg (1920), Hans Vaihinger (1852), and Karl Korsch (1886).

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