PHILOSOPHER

Karl Löwith

1897 - 1973

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Karl Löwith (9 January 1897 – 26 May 1973) was a German philosopher in the phenomenological tradition. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Löwith has received more than 143,029 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Karl Löwith is the 504th most popular philosopher (down from 480th in 2019), the 1,339th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,309th in 2019) and the 66th most popular German Philosopher.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Karl Löwith ranks 504 out of 1,267. Before him are Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Zengzi, Gaetano Mosca, Dicaearchus, Yi I, and Zhang Daoling. After him are Guillaume Budé, Antony Flew, Philo of Larissa, Alasdair MacIntyre, Nezahualcoyotl, and Shantideva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Karl Löwith ranks 66. Before him are Lester B. Pearson, Yeghishe Charents, Ana Aslan, Jiroemon Kimura, Vito Genovese, and Benjamin Lee Whorf. After him are Hans Baur, Sidney Bechet, Adolf Heusinger, Mukhtar Auezov, Thornton Wilder, and Sepp Herberger. Among people deceased in 1973, Karl Löwith ranks 59. Before him are Leo Strauss, Emmy Göring, Asger Jorn, Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Otto Klemperer, and Adolf Strauss. After him are Milunka Savić, Robert Siodmak, Károly Kerényi, Edward Steichen, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, and Sessue Hayakawa.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Löwith ranks 1,339 out of 7,253. Before him are Anna Maria of the Palatinate (1561), Sepp Piontek (1940), Christoph Cellarius (1638), Andreas Libavius (1555), Lucius Antonius Saturninus (20), and Johann Jacob Schweppe (1740). After him are Fritz Bayerlein (1899), Fancy (1946), Princess Auguste of Bavaria (1877), Otto II, Duke of Bavaria (1206), Ludwig Prandtl (1875), and Franz von Hipper (1863).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Karl Löwith ranks 66. Before him are Paul Natorp (1854), Hans Reichenbach (1891), Ernst Troeltsch (1865), Carl Stumpf (1848), Karl-Otto Apel (1922), and Hermann Lotze (1817). After him are Annemarie Schimmel (1922), Eduard Spranger (1882), Hans Blumenberg (1920), Hans Vaihinger (1852), Karl Korsch (1886), and Axel Honneth (1949).

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