PHILOSOPHER

Leo Baeck

1873 - 1956

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Leo Baeck (German pronunciation: [ˌleːo ˈbɛk] ; 23 May 1873 – 2 November 1956) was a 20th-century German rabbi, scholar, and theologian. He served as leader of Reform Judaism in his native country and internationally, and later represented all German Jews during the Nazi era. After the Second World War, he settled in London, in the United Kingdom, where he served as the chairman of the World Union for Progressive Judaism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leo Baeck has received more than 179,572 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Leo Baeck is the 931st most popular philosopher (down from 901st in 2019), the 700th most popular biography from Poland (down from 661st in 2019) and the 24th most popular Polish Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Leo Baeck ranks 931 out of 1,267. Before him are Simón Rodríguez, Karl Groos, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Vasily Rozanov, Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, and Antoine Berman. After him are Azmi Bishara, John Scott Haldane, Ervin László, Anandavardhana, Ramiro Ledesma Ramos, and Pedro da Fonseca.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Leo Baeck ranks 99. Before him are José Martínez Ruiz, Charles Fox Parham, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, Gustaf John Ramstedt, Michele Besso, and Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde. After him are Ford Madox Ford, Mariano Azuela, Willa Cather, Nikolai Tcherepnin, E. D. Morel, and Leo Fall. Among people deceased in 1956, Leo Baeck ranks 105. Before him are Vladimir Obruchev, Louis Rosier, Israel Zolli, Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg, Frigyes Riesz, and Stan Ockers. After him are Paul Renner, Norman L. Bowen, Heinrich Barkhausen, Jean Hersholt, Vladimir Filatov, and Corrado Alvaro.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Leo Baeck ranks 700 out of 1,694. Before him are Frederick II of Legnica (1480), Radosław Sikorski (1963), Yakov Perelman (1882), Ernst Wiechert (1887), Halina Konopacka (1900), and Walther Wever (1887). After him are Stefan Rowecki (1895), Bernhard Goetzke (1884), Hugo von Pohl (1855), Franciszek Smuglewicz (1745), Stefanie Zweig (1932), and Czesław Kiszczak (1925).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Poland

Among philosophers born in Poland, Leo Baeck ranks 24. Before him are Florian Znaniecki (1882), John Cantius (1390), Symon Budny (1530), Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928), Franz Neumann (1900), and Józef Maria Bocheński (1902). After him are Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907), Stanisław Staszic (1755), Jerzy Żuławski (1874), Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski (1503), Tadeusz Kotarbiński (1886), and Władysław Tatarkiewicz (1886).

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