PHILOSOPHER

Karl Groos

1861 - 1946

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Karl Groos (10 December 1861, in Heidelberg – 27 March 1946, in Tübingen) was a German philosopher and psychologist who proposed an evolutionary instrumentalist theory of play. His 1898 book on The Play of Animals suggested that play is a preparation for later life. Groos was full Professor of philosophy in Gießen, Basel and 1911–1929 in Tübingen. His main idea was that play is basically useful, and so it can be explained by the normal process of evolution by natural selection. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Groos has received more than 61,706 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Groos is the 926th most popular philosopher, the 3,295th most popular biography from Germany and the 118th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Karl Groos ranks 926 out of 1,267. Before him are Denis Pétau, Lars Gustafsson, Matthias Bel, Dirck Coornhert, František Tomášek, and Simón Rodríguez. After him are Dietrich von Hildebrand, Vasily Rozanov, Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Antoine Berman, Leo Baeck, and Azmi Bishara.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Karl Groos ranks 84. Before him are Emil Wiechert, Carl Moll, Bhikaiji Cama, Zinaida Yusupova, Félix Fénéon, and Prafulla Chandra Ray. After him are Paul Ranson, Nasreddine Dinet, Curt von Bardeleben, Jacques-Émile Blanche, Morgan Robertson, and Saovabha Phongsri. Among people deceased in 1946, Karl Groos ranks 115. Before him are Heinrich George, Dion Fortune, Ferdinand Marian, Maud Watson, Victor Loret, and Léon Gaumont. After him are Leopold Okulicki, Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe, Safiya Zaghloul, Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Erwin Rösener, and Louis Bachelier.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Groos ranks 3,295 out of 7,253. Before him are Carl Schurz (1829), Paul Kummer (1834), Ludwig Renn (1889), Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt (1669), Arno Peters (1916), and Kurt Jooss (1901). After him are Edgar Hilsenrath (1926), Yaakov Litzman (1948), Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1672), George Frederick, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1573), Anacharsis Cloots (1755), and Dieter Hallervorden (1935).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Karl Groos ranks 118. Before him are Albrecht Ritschl (1822), Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917), Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873), Johannes Agricola (1494), Erich Neumann (1905), and Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743). After him are Gabriel Biel (1418), Rüdiger Safranski (1945), Gottlob Ernst Schulze (1761), Heinrich Khunrath (1560), Friedrich Paulsen (1846), and Robert Spaemann (1927).

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