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Niklas Luhmann

1927 - 1998

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Niklas Luhmann (; German: [ˈluːman]; December 8, 1927 – November 11, 1998) was a German sociologist, philosopher of social science, and a prominent thinker in systems theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Niklas Luhmann has received more than 772,197 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Niklas Luhmann is the 14th most popular sociologist (down from 12th in 2019), the 515th most popular biography from Germany (down from 446th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Sociologist.

Niklas Luhmann is most famous for his contributions to the study of social systems. He is often considered one of the most influential sociologists of the 20th century.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Niklas Luhmann ranks 14 out of 79. Before him are Erving Goffman, Anthony Giddens, Norbert Elias, Marcel Mauss, Ulrich Beck, and Immanuel Wallerstein. After him are Gabriel Tarde, Karl Mannheim, Manuel Castells, Pitirim Sorokin, Alain Touraine, and Peter L. Berger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Niklas Luhmann ranks 22. Before him are Antônio Carlos Jobim, Kim Young-sam, Sidney Poitier, Lawrence Kohlberg, Albert Uderzo, and Janet Leigh. After him are Harry Belafonte, Simone Veil, Hubert de Givenchy, Robert Hossein, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, and Gilbert Bécaud. Among people deceased in 1998, Niklas Luhmann ranks 11. Before him are Halldór Laxness, Todor Zhivkov, Carlos Castaneda, Ernst Jünger, Octavio Paz, and Jean-François Lyotard. After him are Yang Shangkun, Vladimir Prelog, Raymond Cattell, Alan Shepard, Konstantinos Karamanlis, and Theodore Schultz.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Niklas Luhmann ranks 515 out of 7,253. Before him are Henning von Tresckow (1901), Rabanus Maurus (780), Walter Schellenberg (1910), Helmut Newton (1920), Josef Kramer (1906), and Patrick Süskind (1949). After him are Hans Geiger (1882), Klaus Mann (1906), Erhard Milch (1892), Wassily Leontief (1906), Hans Spemann (1869), and Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among sociologists born in Germany, Niklas Luhmann ranks 4. Before him are Max Weber (1864), Theodor W. Adorno (1903), and Georg Simmel (1858). After him are Robert Michels (1876), Andre Gunder Frank (1929), Amitai Etzioni (1929), Juan José Linz (1926), Lewis A. Coser (1913), Claus Offe (1940), and Louis Wirth (1897).

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