SOCIOLOGIST

Karl Mannheim

1893 - 1947

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Karl Mannheim (born Károly Manheim, 27 March 1893 – 9 January 1947) was a Hungarian sociologist and a key figure in classical sociology as well as one of the founders of the sociology of knowledge. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Mannheim has received more than 394,353 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Karl Mannheim is the 16th most popular sociologist (down from 15th in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 54th in 2019) and the most popular Hungarian Sociologist.

Karl Mannheim was a sociologist who focused on the relationship between sociology and the individual. He is most famous for his idea of the "sociological imagination."

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Karl Mannheim ranks 16 out of 79. Before him are Norbert Elias, Marcel Mauss, Ulrich Beck, Immanuel Wallerstein, Niklas Luhmann, and Gabriel Tarde. After him are Manuel Castells, Pitirim Sorokin, Alain Touraine, Peter L. Berger, Paul Lazarsfeld, and C. Wright Mills.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Karl Mannheim ranks 20. Before him are Chaim Soutine, Lazar Kaganovich, Roland Freisler, Harold Lloyd, Palmiro Togliatti, and Edward Adelbert Doisy. After him are Albert Szent-Györgyi, Paramahansa Yogananda, Omar Bradley, Prajadhipok, Hattie McDaniel, and George Grosz. Among people deceased in 1947, Karl Mannheim ranks 23. Before him are Halford Mackinder, Anton Denikin, Aung San, Ernst Lubitsch, Han van Meegeren, and G. H. Hardy. After him are Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Pierre Bonnard, Nicholas Roerich, Black Dahlia, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, and Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Karl Mannheim ranks 65 out of 1,077. Before him are John Sigismund Zápolya (1540), Arthur Koestler (1905), Ladislaus IV of Hungary (1262), László Moholy-Nagy (1895), Béla Guttmann (1899), and László Sólyom (1942). After him are Andrew I of Hungary (1010), Elizabeth of Bosnia (1340), Ferenc Molnár (1878), Géza II of Hungary (1130), Béla II of Hungary (1108), and Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In Hungary

Among sociologists born in Hungary, Karl Mannheim ranks 1. 

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