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PHILOSOPHER

Jean Améry

1912 - 1978

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Jean Améry (31 October 1912 – 17 October 1978), born Hanns Chaim Mayer, was an Austrian-born essayist whose work was often informed by his experiences during World War II. His most celebrated work, At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities (1966), suggests that torture was "the essence" of the Third Reich. Other notable works included On Aging (1968) and On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death (1976). He first adopted the pseudonym Jean Améry in 1955. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Améry has received more than 246,449 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Jean Améry is the 582nd most popular philosopher (up from 609th in 2019), the 389th most popular biography from Austria (up from 400th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Austrian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Jean Améry ranks 582 out of 1,081Before him are Hermann Lotze, Dignāga, Arete of Cyrene, Diogenes of Babylon, Gongsun Long, and Hu Shih. After him are Zisi, Eknath, Abhinavagupta, Jan Patočka, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Mary Parker Follett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Jean Améry ranks 90Before him are Sohn Kee-chung, Hugh Griffith, Jacques Ellul, Shoichi Nishimura, Perry Como, and Philibert Tsiranana. After him are Jiří Trnka, Igor Markevitch, György Sárosi, Fritz Klingenberg, Kim Sung-gan, and Melita Norwood. Among people deceased in 1978, Jean Améry ranks 62Before him are Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia, Hubert Humphrey, Henry Corbin, Tetsu Katayama, Jack L. Warner, and Philibert Tsiranana. After him are Fernando Peyroteo, Sisavang Vatthana, Guo Moruo, Pablo Dorado, Lilya Brik, and Robert Shaw.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Jean Améry ranks 389 out of 1,237Before him are Oscar Straus (1870), Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757), Willi Boskovsky (1909), Zoltán Tildy (1889), Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria (1649), and Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein (1724). After him are Franz Vranitzky (1937), Hans Krankl (1953), Raul Hilberg (1926), Johannes Schober (1874), Herbert Bayer (1900), and Paul Badura-Skoda (1927).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Austria

Among philosophers born in Austria, Jean Améry ranks 12Before him are Ivan Illich (1926), Otto Weininger (1880), Alfred Schütz (1899), Otto Neurath (1882), André Gorz (1923), and Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757). After him are Kazimierz Twardowski (1866), Christian von Ehrenfels (1859), and Helene von Druskowitz (1856).