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PHILOSOPHER

Josef Pieper

1904 - 1997

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Josef Pieper (German: [ˈpiːpɐ]; 4 May 1904 – 6 November 1997) was a German Catholic philosopher and an important figure in the resurgence of interest in the thought of Thomas Aquinas in early-to-mid 20th-century philosophy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josef Pieper has received more than 192,540 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 16 in 2019). Josef Pieper is the 965th most popular philosopher (down from 879th in 2019), the 3,490th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,881st in 2019) and the 118th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Josef Pieper ranks 965 out of 1,081Before him are Dimitri Kitsikis, Stanisław Staszic, Alexander Men, Ecphantus the Pythagorean, Ram Dass, and Jaimini. After him are Jerzy Żuławski, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Alice von Hildebrand, Mary Daly, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and Ernest Nagel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Josef Pieper ranks 185Before him are Grete Stern, Ibrahim Moustafa, Clarence Nash, Antonin Magne, Salomėja Nėris, and Dmitri Ivanenko. After him are Balys Dvarionas, Georges Miez, Semyon Ignatyev, Gavriil Popov, Alger Hiss, and Attila Petschauer. Among people deceased in 1997, Josef Pieper ranks 149Before him are Sándor Végh, Misael Pastrana Borrero, Robert H. Dicke, René Huyghe, Seni Pramoj, and Salvador Artigas. After him are Léon Poliakov, Bengt Danielsson, Charles Hallahan, Georgy Shonin, Cahit Arf, and Natallia Arsiennieva.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Josef Pieper ranks 3,490 out of 6,142Before him are Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt (1887), Dankmar Adler (1844), Hans-Jörg Butt (1974), Paul Warburg (1868), Udo Voigt (1952), and Friedrich Silcher (1789). After him are Friedrich Theodor Vischer (1807), Karl Friedrich von Gaertner (1772), Johann Friedrich Meckel (1781), Konrad Wolf (1925), Ingo Schwichtenberg (1965), and Ruth Westheimer (1928).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Josef Pieper ranks 118Before him are Albrecht Ritschl (1822), Leo Löwenthal (1900), Gabriel Biel (1418), Carl Dahlhaus (1928), Rudolf Stammler (1856), and Heymann Steinthal (1823). After him are Friedrich Paulsen (1846), Robert Spaemann (1927), Wilhelm Gesenius (1786), Rüdiger Safranski (1945), Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster (1869), and Gottlob Ernst Schulze (1761).