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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 131,907 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Karl Löwith is the 480th most popular philosopher (up from 491st in 2019), the 1,309th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,306th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular German Philosopher.

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.61

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  • 1.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Karl Löwith ranks 480 out of 1,081. Before him are Ahmad Sirhindi, Zhiyi, Thomas Cajetan, Agrippa the Skeptic, Dong Zhongshu, and Philodemus. After him are Karl-Otto Apel, William of Champeaux, Martha Nussbaum, Gaetano Mosca, Themistius, and Nezahualcoyotl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Karl Löwith ranks 65. Before him are Zakir Husain, Douglas Sirk, Vito Genovese, Theodor Busse, Marcel Petiot, and Winifred Wagner. After him are Elijah Muhammad, Sidney Bechet, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Judith Anderson, Jean Epstein, and Thornton Wilder. Among people deceased in 1973, Karl Löwith ranks 59. Before him are Robert Siodmak, Alan Watts, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Leo Strauss, Katina Paxinou, and Shirali Muslimov. After him are Mikhail Kalatozov, Veronica Lake, Edward Steichen, Mary Wigman, Adolf Strauss, and Asger Jorn.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Löwith ranks 1,309 out of 6,142. Before him are Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg (1817), Princess Margaretha of Saxony (1840), Reinhard Genzel (1952), Mesut Özil (1988), Ludwig Quidde (1858), and Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1785). After him are Duke Maximilian Emanuel in Bavaria (1849), W. G. Sebald (1944), Rudolf Caracciola (1901), August von Kotzebue (1761), Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1756), and Karl-Otto Apel (1922).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Karl Löwith ranks 63. Before him are Peter Sloterdijk (1947), Hans Reichenbach (1891), Franz Rosenzweig (1886), Henry Suso (1295), Ernst Troeltsch (1865), and Leo Strauss (1899). After him are Karl-Otto Apel (1922), Annemarie Schimmel (1922), Axel Honneth (1949), Hans Vaihinger (1852), Karl Korsch (1886), and Carl Stumpf (1848).

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