1817 - 1881
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 134,644 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Hermann Lotze is the 576th most popular philosopher (down from 552nd in 2019), the 1,684th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,510th in 2019) and the 78th most popular German Philosopher.
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Among philosophers, Hermann Lotze ranks 576 out of 1,081. Before him are Zhang Daoling, Barlaam of Seminara, Yang Zhu, Thomas Reid, Hans Blumenberg, and Narayana Guru. After him are Dignāga, Arete of Cyrene, Diogenes of Babylon, Gongsun Long, Hu Shih, and Jean Améry.
34 - 156
HPI: 57.19
Rank: 570
1290 - 1348
HPI: 57.18
Rank: 571
369 BC - 318 BC
HPI: 57.16
Rank: 572
1710 - 1796
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 573
1920 - 1996
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 574
1855 - 1928
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 575
1817 - 1881
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 576
480 - 540
HPI: 57.10
Rank: 577
400 BC - 340 BC
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 578
240 BC - 150 BC
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 579
325 BC - 250 BC
HPI: 57.00
Rank: 580
1891 - 1962
HPI: 56.97
Rank: 581
1912 - 1978
HPI: 56.97
Rank: 582
Among people born in 1817, Hermann Lotze ranks 21. Before him are Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg, Austen Henry Layard, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, and Táhirih. After him are Archduke Stephen, Palatine of Hungary, Albert von Kölliker, Antonio de Torres Jurado, Princess Marie Amelie of Baden, Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, and Joseph Dalton Hooker. Among people deceased in 1881, Hermann Lotze ranks 27. Before him are Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis, Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, Ludwig von Benedek, Eduard Heine, Duke Alexander of Württemberg, and Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte. After him are Marie Laveau, Maria Domenica Mazzarello, Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Sophia Perovskaya, Johan Vilhelm Snellman, and Princess Caroline of Denmark.
1817 - 1875
HPI: 59.43
Rank: 15
1817 - 1852
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 16
1817 - 1894
HPI: 58.99
Rank: 17
1817 - 1884
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 18
1817 - 1879
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 19
1817 - 1852
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 20
1817 - 1881
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 21
1817 - 1867
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 22
1817 - 1905
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 23
1817 - 1892
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 24
1817 - 1888
HPI: 56.07
Rank: 25
1817 - 1894
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 26
1817 - 1911
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 27
1860 - 1881
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 21
1797 - 1881
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 22
1804 - 1881
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 23
1821 - 1881
HPI: 57.70
Rank: 24
1804 - 1881
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 25
1815 - 1881
HPI: 57.20
Rank: 26
1817 - 1881
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 27
1801 - 1881
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 28
1837 - 1881
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 29
1818 - 1881
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 30
1853 - 1881
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 31
1806 - 1881
HPI: 55.94
Rank: 32
1793 - 1881
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 33
Among people born in Germany, Hermann Lotze ranks 1,684 out of 6,142. Before him are Else Lasker-Schüler (1869), Kurt Gerron (1897), Carl Ludwig (1816), Marianne Weber (1870), Johannes Steinhoff (1913), and William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (1516). After him are Sophia of Bavaria (1376), Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Eutin (1673), Elisabeth of Swabia (1205), Moritz von Jacobi (1801), Oliver Bierhoff (1968), and Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1713).
1869 - 1945
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 1,678
1897 - 1944
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 1,679
1816 - 1895
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 1,680
1870 - 1954
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 1,681
1913 - 1994
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 1,682
1516 - 1592
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 1,683
1817 - 1881
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 1,684
1376 - 1428
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 1,685
1673 - 1726
HPI: 57.10
Rank: 1,686
1205 - 1235
HPI: 57.10
Rank: 1,687
1801 - 1874
HPI: 57.09
Rank: 1,688
1968 - Present
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 1,689
1713 - 1780
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 1,690
Among philosophers born in Germany, Hermann Lotze ranks 78. Before him are Eduard Spranger (1882), Werner Jaeger (1888), Ludwig Büchner (1824), Johann Bernhard Basedow (1723), Eric Voegelin (1901), and Hans Blumenberg (1920). After him are Constantin von Tischendorf (1815), Johannes Sturm (1507), Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769), Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781), Ernst Nolte (1923), and Andreas Karlstadt (1486).
1882 - 1963
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 72
1888 - 1961
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 73
1824 - 1899
HPI: 57.37
Rank: 74
1723 - 1790
HPI: 57.23
Rank: 75
1901 - 1985
HPI: 57.21
Rank: 76
1920 - 1996
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 77
1817 - 1881
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 78
1815 - 1874
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 79
1507 - 1589
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 80
1769 - 1860
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 81
1781 - 1832
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 82
1923 - 2016
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 83
1486 - 1541
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 84