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PHILOSOPHER

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 135,999 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

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.

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Contemporaries

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.

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In Germany

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).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

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).

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