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PHILOSOPHER

Paul Deussen

1845 - 1919

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Paul Jakob Deussen (German: [ˈpaʊl ˈjaːkɔp ˈdɔʏsn̩]; 7 January 1845 – 6 July 1919) was a German Indologist and professor of philosophy at University of Kiel. Strongly influenced by Arthur Schopenhauer, Deussen was a friend of Friedrich Nietzsche and Swami Vivekananda. In 1911, he founded the Schopenhauer Society (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Deussen has received more than 120,344 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Paul Deussen is the 1,025th most popular philosopher (down from 963rd in 2019), the 3,868th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,420th in 2019) and the 126th most popular German Philosopher.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Paul Deussen ranks 1,025 out of 1,081. Before him are Michael Oakeshott, Philip of Opus, Derek Parfit, Harald Høffding, G. A. Cohen, and P. C. Chang. After him are Eugenio Garin, Ivan Merz, Jean François de Saint-Lambert, William Lane Craig, Herbert Feigl, and Buddhapālita.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Paul Deussen ranks 73. Before him are Žemaitė, Félix Tisserand, Quanah Parker, Jorge Montt, Arthur MacArthur Jr., and André Bessette. After him are Pier Andrea Saccardo, George Kennan, Sámuel Teleki, Antonin Mercié, William Christie, and Franz Ehrle. Among people deceased in 1919, Paul Deussen ranks 116. Before him are Maryana Marrash, Franz Nissl, Tibor Szamuely, Ricardo Palma, Victorino de la Plaza, and Géza Csáth. After him are Julia Lermontova, Franz Steindachner, Louis Diémer, Spyridon Lambros, Napoleon Cybulski, and Ramón Barros Luco.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Paul Deussen ranks 3,868 out of 6,142. Before him are Loki Schmidt (1919), Thomas Doll (1966), Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau (1837), Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold (1804), Sophia of Holstein-Gottorp (1569), and Hans Zender (1936). After him are Dietrich Kraiss (1889), Herbert Runge (1913), Sheryl Lee (1967), Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg (1718), Princess Marie of Hanover (1849), and Princess Hermine of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1827).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Paul Deussen ranks 126. Before him are Robert Spaemann (1927), Wilhelm Gesenius (1786), Rüdiger Safranski (1945), Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster (1869), Gottlob Ernst Schulze (1761), and Immanuel Hermann Fichte (1796). After him are Martin Chemnitz (1522), Hermann Gunkel (1862), Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (1930), F. C. S. Schiller (1864), Volker Zotz (1956), and Walter Kaufmann (1921).

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