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Martin Heidegger

1889 - 1976

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Martin Heidegger (; German: [ˈmaʁtiːn ˈhaɪdɛɡɐ]; 26 September 1889 – 26 May 1976) was a German philosopher best known for contributions to phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. His work covers a wide range of topics including ontology, technology, art, metaphysics, humanism, language and history of philosophy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Heidegger has received more than 5,554,285 page views. His biography is available in 105 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 98 in 2019). Martin Heidegger is the 36th most popular philosopher (down from 32nd in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Germany and the 4th most popular German Philosopher.

Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher who is most famous for the idea of "being-in-the-world."

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Martin Heidegger ranks 36 out of 1,267. Before him are Erasmus, Diogenes, Parmenides, Baruch Spinoza, Anaximander, and Al-Farabi. After him are Maria Montessori, Plutarch, Søren Kierkegaard, David Hume, Sun Tzu, and Rajneesh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Martin Heidegger ranks 3. Before him are Adolf Hitler, and Charlie Chaplin. After him are Ludwig Wittgenstein, António de Oliveira Salazar, Jawaharlal Nehru, Jean Cocteau, Edwin Hubble, Paul Karrer, Ante Pavelić, Anna Akhmatova, and Arnold J. Toynbee. Among people deceased in 1976, Martin Heidegger ranks 3. Before him are Mao Zedong, and Agatha Christie. After him are Werner Heisenberg, Howard Hughes, Alvar Aalto, Luchino Visconti, Zhou Enlai, Fritz Lang, Max Ernst, Jean Gabin, and Bernard Montgomery.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Martin Heidegger ranks 31 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich Engels (1820), Max Planck (1858), Johannes Brahms (1833), Karl Dönitz (1891), Anne Frank (1929), and Friedrich Schiller (1759). After him are Hermann Hesse (1877), Franz Beckenbauer (1945), Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859), Heinrich Himmler (1900), Angela Merkel (1954), and Thomas Mann (1875).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Martin Heidegger ranks 4. Before him are Friedrich Nietzsche (1844), Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770), and Friedrich Engels (1820). After him are Hannah Arendt (1906), Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762), Ludwig Feuerbach (1804), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775), Karl Jaspers (1883), Jürgen Habermas (1929), Carl von Clausewitz (1780), and Nicholas of Cusa (1401).

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