1922 - 2017
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, Karl-Otto Apel ranks 481 out of 1,081. Before 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.
538 - 597
HPI: 59.20
Rank: 475
1469 - 1534
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 476
100 - 100
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 477
179 BC - 104 BC
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 478
110 BC - 35 BC
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 479
1897 - 1973
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 480
1922 - 2017
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 481
1070 - 1121
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 482
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 483
1858 - 1941
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 484
317 - 388
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 485
1402 - 1472
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 486
1922 - 2003
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 487
Among people born in 1922, Karl-Otto Apel ranks 78. Before 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 77. Before 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.
1922 - 2014
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 72
1922 - 1990
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 73
1922 - 1950
HPI: 59.27
Rank: 74
1922 - 2019
HPI: 59.23
Rank: 75
1922 - 1984
HPI: 59.19
Rank: 76
1922 - 2010
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 77
1922 - 2017
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 78
1922 - 2003
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 79
1922 - 2004
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 80
1922 - 1976
HPI: 58.75
Rank: 81
1922 - 1973
HPI: 58.74
Rank: 82
1922 - 1962
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 83
1922 - 1979
HPI: 58.59
Rank: 84
1926 - 2017
HPI: 59.50
Rank: 71
1918 - 2017
HPI: 59.40
Rank: 72
1964 - 2017
HPI: 59.38
Rank: 73
1934 - 2017
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 74
1928 - 2017
HPI: 59.28
Rank: 75
1925 - 2017
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 76
1922 - 2017
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 77
1936 - 2017
HPI: 58.94
Rank: 78
1935 - 2017
HPI: 58.93
Rank: 79
1942 - 2017
HPI: 58.90
Rank: 80
1925 - 2017
HPI: 58.89
Rank: 81
1935 - 2017
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 82
1933 - 2017
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 83
Among people born in Germany, Karl-Otto Apel ranks 1,315 out of 6,142. Before 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).
1897 - 1973
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 1,309
1849 - 1893
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 1,310
1944 - 2001
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 1,311
1901 - 1959
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 1,312
1761 - 1819
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 1,313
1756 - 1837
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 1,314
1922 - 2017
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 1,315
1954 - Present
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 1,316
1682 - 1719
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 1,317
1906 - 1996
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 1,318
1614 - 1672
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 1,319
1878 - 1945
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 1,320
1801 - 1883
HPI: 58.93
Rank: 1,321
Among philosophers born in Germany, Karl-Otto Apel ranks 64. Before 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).
1891 - 1953
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 58
1886 - 1929
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 59
1295 - 1366
HPI: 59.74
Rank: 60
1865 - 1923
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 61
1899 - 1973
HPI: 59.48
Rank: 62
1897 - 1973
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 63
1922 - 2017
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 64
1922 - 2003
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 65
1949 - Present
HPI: 58.63
Rank: 66
1852 - 1933
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 67
1886 - 1961
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 68
1848 - 1936
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 69
1459 - 1508
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 70