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Moritz Schlick

1882 - 1936

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Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick (; German: [ʃlɪk] ; 14 April 1882 – 22 June 1936) was a German philosopher, physicist, and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Moritz Schlick has received more than 391,646 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Moritz Schlick is the 323rd most popular philosopher, the 689th most popular biography from Germany (up from 726th in 2019) and the 45th most popular German Philosopher.

Moritz Schlick is most famous for his work in the philosophy of science. He was a professor at the University of Vienna and was killed by a Nazi sympathizer in 1936.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Moritz Schlick ranks 323 out of 1,267. Before him are Judith Butler, Alfred Schütz, Julius Caesar Scaliger, Alfred Tarski, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, and Rudolf Otto. After him are Ramanuja, Moses Hess, Martianus Capella, Aristoxenus, Johann Georg Hamann, and Hermann Cohen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Moritz Schlick ranks 43. Before him are Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, René Coty, Bela Lugosi, Robert H. Goddard, Princess Marie Bonaparte, and Nicolai Hartmann. After him are Yanka Kupala, Boris Shaposhnikov, Karol Szymanowski, Otto Neurath, Lluís Companys, and Éamon de Valera. Among people deceased in 1936, Moritz Schlick ranks 32. Before him are Hans von Seeckt, Karl Kraus, Charles Nicolle, Andrija Mohorovičić, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, and Róbert Bárány. After him are Robert E. Howard, Anne Sullivan, Georg Michaelis, Karl Pearson, Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen, and Nikolai Ostrovsky.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Moritz Schlick ranks 689 out of 7,253. Before him are Hugo Ball (1886), Hans Morgenthau (1904), Rudolf Otto (1869), George V of Hanover (1819), Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg (1513), and Karl-Otto Koch (1897). After him are Bernard Katz (1911), Helmut Rahn (1929), Moses Hess (1812), Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen (1738), Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France (1174), and Jost Gippert (1956).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Moritz Schlick ranks 45. Before him are Bruno Bauer (1809), Johann Reuchlin (1455), Franz Brentano (1838), Carl Gustav Hempel (1905), Rudolf Bultmann (1884), and Rudolf Otto (1869). After him are Moses Hess (1812), Hermann Cohen (1842), David Strauss (1808), Wilhelm Windelband (1848), Gershom Scholem (1897), and Leo Strauss (1899).

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