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Karl-Otto Apel

1922 - 2017

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Karl-Otto Apel (German: [ˈaːpl̩]; 15 March 1922 – 15 May 2017) was a German philosopher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Frankfurt am Main. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl-Otto Apel has received more than 118,291 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Karl-Otto Apel is the 481st most popular philosopher (down from 469th in 2019), the 1,315th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,209th in 2019) and the 64th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Karl-Otto Apel ranks 481 out of 1,081Before him are Zhiyi, Thomas Cajetan, Agrippa the Skeptic, Dong Zhongshu, Philodemus, and Karl Löwith. After him are William of Champeaux, Martha Nussbaum, Gaetano Mosca, Themistius, Nezahualcoyotl, and Annemarie Schimmel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Karl-Otto Apel ranks 78Before him are Ralph H. Baer, Ugo Tognazzi, Mao Anying, Roger Etchegaray, Enrico Berlinguer, and Arthur Penn. After him are Annemarie Schimmel, Elmer Bernstein, Abdul Razak Hussein, Veronica Lake, Gianna Beretta Molla, and Charles Mingus. Among people deceased in 2017, Karl-Otto Apel ranks 77Before him are Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Chris Cornell, Albert Speer, Fats Domino, and Robert Hardy. After him are Ljubiša Samardžić, Elsa Martinelli, Anita Pallenberg, Nicolai Gedda, John G. Avildsen, and Peter Mansfield.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl-Otto Apel ranks 1,315 out of 6,142Before him are Karl Löwith (1897), Duke Maximilian Emanuel in Bavaria (1849), W. G. Sebald (1944), Rudolf Caracciola (1901), August von Kotzebue (1761), and Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1756). After him are Marian Gold (1954), Johann Friedrich Böttger (1682), Brigitte Helm (1906), Franciscus Sylvius (1614), Georg Kaiser (1878), and Prince Charles of Prussia (1801).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Karl-Otto Apel ranks 64Before him are Hans Reichenbach (1891), Franz Rosenzweig (1886), Henry Suso (1295), Ernst Troeltsch (1865), Leo Strauss (1899), and Karl Löwith (1897). After him are Annemarie Schimmel (1922), Axel Honneth (1949), Hans Vaihinger (1852), Karl Korsch (1886), Carl Stumpf (1848), and Conrad Celtes (1459).