1882 - 1936
Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick (; German: [ʃlɪk] (listen); 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 299,833 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Moritz Schlick is the 327th most popular philosopher (down from 259th in 2019), the 726th most popular biography from Germany (down from 511th in 2019) and the 46th 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, Moritz Schlick ranks 327 out of 1,081. Before him are Aenesidemus, Heraclides Ponticus, Jean-Luc Nancy, Gemistus Pletho, Alexandre Koyré, and David Strauss. After him are Henri Lefebvre, Mazdak, Ramanuja, Crates of Thebes, Timon of Phlius, and Otto Neurath.
80 BC - 10 BC
HPI: 63.33
Rank: 321
385 BC - 322 BC
HPI: 63.33
Rank: 322
1940 - 2021
HPI: 63.32
Rank: 323
1355 - 1452
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 324
1892 - 1964
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 325
1808 - 1874
HPI: 63.20
Rank: 326
1882 - 1936
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 327
1901 - 1991
HPI: 63.13
Rank: 328
450 - 529
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 329
1017 - 1137
HPI: 63.09
Rank: 330
365 BC - 285 BC
HPI: 63.06
Rank: 331
320 BC - 230 BC
HPI: 63.02
Rank: 332
1882 - 1945
HPI: 63.00
Rank: 333
Among people born in 1882, Moritz Schlick ranks 43. Before him are Arthur Eddington, Bela Lugosi, Nicolai Hartmann, Robert H. Goddard, Boris Shaposhnikov, and René Coty. After him are Karol Szymanowski, Otto Neurath, Yanka Kupala, Friedrich Dollmann, John Rabe, and B. Traven. Among people deceased in 1936, Moritz Schlick ranks 35. Before him are Elsa Einstein, Anne Sullivan, Charles Nicolle, Julius Schreck, Georg Michaelis, and Nikolai Ostrovsky. After him are Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Karl Pearson, Antoine Meillet, Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, and Georgy Chicherin.
1882 - 1944
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 37
1882 - 1956
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 38
1882 - 1950
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 39
1882 - 1945
HPI: 64.20
Rank: 40
1882 - 1945
HPI: 64.00
Rank: 41
1882 - 1962
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 42
1882 - 1936
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 43
1882 - 1937
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 44
1882 - 1945
HPI: 63.00
Rank: 45
1882 - 1942
HPI: 62.99
Rank: 46
1882 - 1944
HPI: 62.63
Rank: 47
1882 - 1950
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 48
1882 - 1969
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 49
1876 - 1936
HPI: 63.95
Rank: 29
1866 - 1936
HPI: 63.73
Rank: 30
1866 - 1936
HPI: 63.71
Rank: 31
1898 - 1936
HPI: 63.52
Rank: 32
1857 - 1936
HPI: 63.30
Rank: 33
1904 - 1936
HPI: 63.22
Rank: 34
1882 - 1936
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 35
1876 - 1936
HPI: 62.99
Rank: 36
1857 - 1936
HPI: 62.90
Rank: 37
1866 - 1936
HPI: 62.62
Rank: 38
1856 - 1936
HPI: 62.50
Rank: 39
1850 - 1936
HPI: 62.00
Rank: 40
1872 - 1936
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 41
Among people born in Germany, Moritz Schlick ranks 726 out of 6,142. Before him are Johann Tetzel (1460), Hardy Krüger (1928), Gisela of Hungary (980), Amalie Auguste of Bavaria (1801), Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826), and John George I, Elector of Saxony (1585). After him are Manfred Gerlach (1928), Johann Joachim Becher (1635), Hermann von Salza (1170), Karl Harrer (1890), Thomas Anders (1963), and Frederick Augustus III of Saxony (1865).
1460 - 1519
HPI: 63.18
Rank: 720
1928 - 2022
HPI: 63.17
Rank: 721
980 - 1065
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 722
1801 - 1877
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 723
1826 - 1900
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 724
1585 - 1656
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 725
1882 - 1936
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 726
1928 - 2011
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 727
1635 - 1682
HPI: 63.14
Rank: 728
1170 - 1239
HPI: 63.13
Rank: 729
1890 - 1926
HPI: 63.13
Rank: 730
1963 - Present
HPI: 63.06
Rank: 731
1865 - 1932
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 732
Among philosophers born in Germany, Moritz Schlick ranks 46. Before him are Rudolf Bultmann (1884), Adam of Bremen (null), Rudolf Otto (1869), Johann Reuchlin (1455), Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743), and David Strauss (1808). After him are Hermann Cohen (1842), Wilhelm Windelband (1848), Moses Hess (1812), Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann (1842), Gershom Scholem (1897), and Karl Rahner (1904).
1884 - 1976
HPI: 64.44
Rank: 40
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 41
1869 - 1937
HPI: 64.07
Rank: 42
1455 - 1522
HPI: 63.92
Rank: 43
1743 - 1819
HPI: 63.39
Rank: 44
1808 - 1874
HPI: 63.20
Rank: 45
1882 - 1936
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 46
1842 - 1918
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 47
1848 - 1915
HPI: 62.24
Rank: 48
1812 - 1875
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 49
1842 - 1906
HPI: 61.69
Rank: 50
1897 - 1982
HPI: 61.60
Rank: 51
1904 - 1984
HPI: 61.26
Rank: 52