1889 - 1976
Martin Heidegger (; German: [ˈmaʁtiːn ˈhaɪdɛɡɐ]; 26 September 1889 – 26 May 1976) was a German philosopher, and a seminal thinker in the Continental tradition of philosophy. He is best known for contributions to phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. In Being and Time (1927), Heidegger addresses the meaning of "being" by considering the question, "what is common to all entities that makes them entities?" Heidegger approaches this question through an analysis of Dasein, his term for the specific type of being that humans possess, and which he associates closely with his concept of "being-in-the-world" (In-der-Welt-sein). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Heidegger has received more than 3,087,708 page views. His biography is available in 92 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 88 in 2019). Martin Heidegger is the 33rd most popular philosopher (down from 31st in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Germany (up from 30th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Philosopher.
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Among philosophers, Martin Heidegger ranks 33 out of 1,089. Before him are Friedrich Engels, Averroes, Democritus, Diogenes, David Hume, and Laozi. After him are Søren Kierkegaard, Auguste Comte, Sun Tzu, Plutarch, Al-Ghazali, and Michel de Montaigne.
1820 - 1895
HPI: 87.10
Rank: 27
1126 - 1198
HPI: 86.62
Rank: 28
460 BC - 360 BC
HPI: 86.38
Rank: 29
404 BC - 322 BC
HPI: 86.10
Rank: 30
1711 - 1776
HPI: 86.05
Rank: 31
604 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 86.03
Rank: 32
1889 - 1976
HPI: 86.01
Rank: 33
1813 - 1855
HPI: 85.75
Rank: 34
1798 - 1857
HPI: 85.46
Rank: 35
543 BC - 495 BC
HPI: 85.45
Rank: 36
46 - 127
HPI: 85.27
Rank: 37
1058 - 1111
HPI: 85.22
Rank: 38
1533 - 1592
HPI: 85.09
Rank: 39
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, Jean Cocteau, Edwin Hubble, Jawaharlal Nehru, Ante Pavelić, Anna Akhmatova, Arnold J. Toynbee, and Vaslav Nijinsky. Among people deceased in 1976, Martin Heidegger ranks 3. Before him are Mao Zedong and Agatha Christie. After him are Howard Hughes, Werner Heisenberg, Alvar Aalto, Luchino Visconti, Max Ernst, Zhou Enlai, Bernard Montgomery, Fritz Lang, and Trofim Lysenko.
1889 - 1945
HPI: 95.49
Rank: 1
1889 - 1977
HPI: 90.72
Rank: 2
1889 - 1976
HPI: 86.01
Rank: 3
1889 - 1951
HPI: 84.82
Rank: 4
1889 - 1970
HPI: 81.87
Rank: 5
1889 - 1963
HPI: 81.76
Rank: 6
1889 - 1953
HPI: 81.49
Rank: 7
1889 - 1964
HPI: 81.35
Rank: 8
1889 - 1959
HPI: 78.83
Rank: 9
1889 - 1966
HPI: 77.89
Rank: 10
1889 - 1975
HPI: 77.45
Rank: 11
1889 - 1950
HPI: 77.01
Rank: 12
1893 - 1976
HPI: 89.64
Rank: 1
1890 - 1976
HPI: 87.74
Rank: 2
1889 - 1976
HPI: 86.01
Rank: 3
1905 - 1976
HPI: 85.21
Rank: 4
1901 - 1976
HPI: 84.24
Rank: 5
1898 - 1976
HPI: 81.44
Rank: 6
1906 - 1976
HPI: 80.44
Rank: 7
1891 - 1976
HPI: 79.48
Rank: 8
1898 - 1976
HPI: 79.16
Rank: 9
1887 - 1976
HPI: 79.03
Rank: 10
1890 - 1976
HPI: 77.93
Rank: 11
1898 - 1976
HPI: 77.26
Rank: 12
Among people born in Germany, Martin Heidegger ranks 28 out of 5,289. Before him are Max Planck (1858), Pope Benedict XVI (1927), Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837), Anne Frank (1929), Robert Schumann (1810), and Heinrich Himmler (1900). After him are Thomas Mann (1875), Hermann Hesse (1877), Johannes Kepler (1571), Erwin Rommel (1891), Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859), and Friedrich Schiller (1759).
1858 - 1947
HPI: 86.63
Rank: 22
1927 - Present
HPI: 86.45
Rank: 23
1837 - 1898
HPI: 86.42
Rank: 24
1929 - 1945
HPI: 86.37
Rank: 25
1810 - 1856
HPI: 86.35
Rank: 26
1900 - 1945
HPI: 86.04
Rank: 27
1889 - 1976
HPI: 86.01
Rank: 28
1875 - 1955
HPI: 86.00
Rank: 29
1877 - 1962
HPI: 85.91
Rank: 30
1571 - 1630
HPI: 85.70
Rank: 31
1891 - 1944
HPI: 85.58
Rank: 32
1859 - 1941
HPI: 85.48
Rank: 33
1759 - 1805
HPI: 85.35
Rank: 34
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), Karl Jaspers (1883), Jürgen Habermas (1929), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775), Nicholas of Cusa (1401), and Walter Benjamin (1892).
1844 - 1900
HPI: 91.80
Rank: 1
1770 - 1831
HPI: 89.62
Rank: 2
1820 - 1895
HPI: 87.10
Rank: 3
1889 - 1976
HPI: 86.01
Rank: 4
1906 - 1975
HPI: 84.07
Rank: 5
1762 - 1814
HPI: 82.73
Rank: 6
1804 - 1872
HPI: 82.63
Rank: 7
1883 - 1969
HPI: 82.13
Rank: 8
1929 - Present
HPI: 81.94
Rank: 9
1775 - 1854
HPI: 81.86
Rank: 10
1401 - 1464
HPI: 81.46
Rank: 11
1892 - 1940
HPI: 80.97
Rank: 12