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PHILOSOPHER

Leo Strauss

1899 - 1973

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Leo Strauss ( STROWSS, German: [ˈleːoː ˈʃtʁaʊs]; September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) was a 20th century German-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 1,776,383 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Leo Strauss is the 462nd most popular philosopher (down from 451st in 2019), the 1,220th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,147th in 2019) and the 62nd 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 462 out of 1,081. Before him are Norberto Bobbio, Adam Ferguson, Willard Van Orman Quine, Nelson Goodman, Pierre Duhem, and Dhul-Nun al-Misri. After him are George Pachymeres, John Toland, Shantideva, Stilpo, Dicaearchus, and Roger Scruton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Leo Strauss ranks 58. Before him are Louis Hjelmslev, Charles Boyer, Georges Auric, P. L. Travers, Georges Bidault, and Philipp Bouhler. After him are Burt Munro, Brassaï, Ernst-Robert Grawitz, Andrei Platonov, Aksel Sandemose, and Franz Jonas. Among people deceased in 1973, Leo Strauss ranks 56. Before him are Emmy Göring, W. H. Auden, Otto Klemperer, Robert Siodmak, Alan Watts, and E. E. Evans-Pritchard. After him are Katina Paxinou, Shirali Muslimov, Karl Löwith, Mikhail Kalatozov, Veronica Lake, and Edward Steichen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Leo Strauss ranks 1,220 out of 6,142. Before him are Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (1751), Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1876), Carl Clauberg (1898), Méret Oppenheim (1913), Veit Stoss (1450), and Severinus of Noricum (410). After him are Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (1911), Douglas Sirk (1897), Fabian von Schlabrendorff (1907), Otto II, Duke of Bavaria (1206), Dieter Rams (1932), and Manuel Neuer (1986).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Leo Strauss ranks 62. Before him are Carl Gustav Hempel (1905), Peter Sloterdijk (1947), Hans Reichenbach (1891), Franz Rosenzweig (1886), Henry Suso (1295), and Ernst Troeltsch (1865). After him are Karl Löwith (1897), Karl-Otto Apel (1922), Annemarie Schimmel (1922), Axel Honneth (1949), Hans Vaihinger (1852), and Karl Korsch (1886).

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