PHILOSOPHER

Hermann Usener

1834 - 1905

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Hermann Karl Usener (23 October 1834 – 21 October 1905) was a German scholar in the fields of philology and comparative religion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann Usener has received more than 39,488 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Usener is the 1,027th most popular philosopher, the 3,894th most popular biography from Germany and the 125th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Hermann Usener ranks 1,027 out of 1,267Before him are Derek Parfit, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Hegesias of Magnesia, Caspar Bartholin the Elder, John Hick, and Robert Spaemann. After him are Josiah Royce, August Böckh, Idomeneus of Lampsacus, Jaime Balmes, Sopater of Apamea, and Paul Deussen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Hermann Usener ranks 60Before him are Edwin Klebs, Peter Benoit, Prince William of Schaumburg-Lippe, Georg Hermann Quincke, John Gilbert Baker, and Carl Lange. After him are Todor Burmov, Joachim III of Constantinople, Julius Reubke, Lyuben Karavelov, John Wesley Powell, and Herman Snellen. Among people deceased in 1905, Hermann Usener ranks 63Before him are Hermann Wissmann, Charles Renard, Alexander, Prince of Lippe, John Hay, Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano, and Charles Yerkes. After him are Célestine Galli-Marié, Theodoros Diligiannis, Francesco Tamagno, Ralph Copeland, René Goblet, and Louis-Ernest Barrias.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Usener ranks 3,894 out of 7,253Before him are Christian Gotthilf Salzmann (1744), Maximilian von Montgelas (1759), Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger (1765), Karl Alfred von Zittel (1839), Wilhelm Jordan (1842), and Walter Andreas Schwarz (1913). After him are Alice Weidel (1979), Friedrich von Bodenstedt (1819), Christian Rohlfs (1849), Emil Warburg (1846), Friedrich Wilhelm III, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1657), and J. C. Leyendecker (1874).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Hermann Usener ranks 125Before him are Gabriel Biel (1418), Rüdiger Safranski (1945), Gottlob Ernst Schulze (1761), Heinrich Khunrath (1560), Friedrich Paulsen (1846), and Robert Spaemann (1927). After him are August Böckh (1785), Paul Deussen (1845), Wilhelm Gesenius (1786), Carl Dahlhaus (1928), Theodor Benfey (1809), and Hermann Gunkel (1862).