PHILOSOPHER

Leo Strauss

1899 - 1973

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Leo Strauss (September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) was an American scholar of political philosophy. Born in Germany to Jewish parents, Strauss later emigrated from Germany to the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leo Strauss has received more than 1,907,341 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Leo Strauss is the 375th most popular philosopher (up from 462nd in 2019), the 915th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,220th in 2019) and the 51st most popular German Philosopher.

Leo Strauss was a political philosopher who was born in Germany in 1899. He immigrated to the United States in 1938, and became a professor of political science at the University of Chicago. Strauss is most famous for his critique of the Enlightenment and his interpretation of the Bible as a political text.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Leo Strauss ranks 375 out of 1,267. Before him are Nasir Khusraw, Francis Hutcheson, Jean Gerson, Gershom Scholem, Richard Avenarius, and Nicephorus Gregoras. After him are Ágnes Heller, Gennadius Scholarius, Hilary Putnam, Masanobu Fukuoka, John of Salisbury, and Plutarch of Athens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Leo Strauss ranks 39. Before him are Charles Laughton, Ferhat Abbas, Jean Moulin, Georg von Békésy, Suzanne Lenglen, and John Hasbrouck Van Vleck. After him are Bronislav Kaminski, Chang Myon, Lucio Fontana, Macfarlane Burnet, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, and Sobhuza II. Among people deceased in 1973, Leo Strauss ranks 53. Before him are W. H. Auden, Edward G. Robinson, Elsa Schiaparelli, Frances Marion, Frank Costello, and Howard H. Aiken. After him are Emmy Göring, Asger Jorn, Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Otto Klemperer, Adolf Strauss, and Karl Löwith.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Leo Strauss ranks 915 out of 7,253. Before him are Max Delbrück (1906), Ernst Chain (1906), Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche (1846), Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777), William IV, Duke of Bavaria (1493), and Prince Augustus William of Prussia (1722). After him are Hans Sachs (1494), Hans Scholl (1918), Albert of Saxony (1828), August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818), Luise Rainer (1910), and Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (1635).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Leo Strauss ranks 51. Before him are Moritz Schlick (1882), Moses Hess (1812), Hermann Cohen (1842), David Strauss (1808), Wilhelm Windelband (1848), and Gershom Scholem (1897). After him are Karl Rahner (1904), Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann (1842), Christian Thomasius (1655), Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach (1775), Peter Sloterdijk (1947), and Franz Rosenzweig (1886).

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