PHILOSOPHER

Max Scheler

1874 - 1928

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Max Ferdinand Scheler (German: [ˈʃeːlɐ]; 22 August 1874 – 19 May 1928) was a German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Scheler has received more than 455,539 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia. Max Scheler is the 152nd most popular philosopher (up from 170th in 2019), the 232nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 268th in 2019) and the 26th most popular German Philosopher.

Max Scheler was a German philosopher and phenomenologist. He is most famous for his work on moral philosophy and ethics.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Max Scheler ranks 152 out of 1,267. Before him are Christian Wolff, Hippasus, Max Stirner, György Lukács, Louis Althusser, and Adi Shankara. After him are Clement of Alexandria, Herbert Marcuse, Carl Schmitt, Friedrich Schleiermacher, John Rawls, and Ferdinand Tönnies.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Max Scheler ranks 11. Before him are Arnold Schoenberg, Herbert Hoover, Howard Carter, Chaim Weizmann, Ernst Cassirer, and Johannes Stark. After him are Edward Thorndike, Gertrude Stein, Alexander Kolchak, António Egas Moniz, Carl Bosch, and Lucy Maud Montgomery. Among people deceased in 1928, Max Scheler ranks 5. Before him are Roald Amundsen, Hendrik Lorentz, Wilhelm Wien, and Leoš Janáček. After him are Maria Feodorovna, Emmeline Pankhurst, Édouard-Henri Avril, Pyotr Wrangel, Johannes Fibiger, Theodore William Richards, and Zhang Zuolin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max Scheler ranks 232 out of 7,253. Before him are J. Hans D. Jensen (1907), Matthias Grünewald (1480), Johann Pachelbel (1653), Johannes Stark (1874), Magda Goebbels (1901), and Otto von Guericke (1602). After him are Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838), Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717), Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (1620), Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden (1710), Georgius Agricola (1494), and Erich Hartmann (1922).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Max Scheler ranks 26. Before him are Baron d'Holbach (1723), Oswald Spengler (1880), Wilhelm Dilthey (1833), Edith Stein (1891), Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714), and Max Stirner (1806). After him are Herbert Marcuse (1898), Carl Schmitt (1888), Ferdinand Tönnies (1855), Max Horkheimer (1895), Athanasius Kircher (1602), and Moses Mendelssohn (1729).

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