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Ralf Dahrendorf

1929 - 2009

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Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, (German pronunciation: [ˈʁalf ˈɡʊstaf ˈdaːʁəndɔʁf]; 1 May 1929 – 17 June 2009) was a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and liberal politician. A class conflict theorist, Dahrendorf was a leading expert on explaining and analysing class divisions in modern society. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ralf Dahrendorf has received more than 484,454 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia. Ralf Dahrendorf is the 9th most popular political scientist, the 769th most popular biography from Germany (up from 774th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Political Scientist.

Ralf Dahrendorf is most famous for his work in the sociology of knowledge, and his book "Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society."

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS

Among political scientists, Ralf Dahrendorf ranks 9 out of 46. Before him are Francis Fukuyama, Johan Galtung, Christian Lous Lange, Georg Jellinek, Harold Lasswell, and Hans Morgenthau. After him are Aleksandr Dugin, Benedict Anderson, Gene Sharp, Maurice Duverger, David Easton, and Robert A. Dahl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Ralf Dahrendorf ranks 57. Before him are Yevgeny Primakov, Gudrun Burwitz, Karolos Papoulias, Günter Schabowski, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and Murray Gell-Mann. After him are James Last, Lennart Johansson, John Cassavetes, Osamu Yamaji, Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow, and Ivar Giaever. Among people deceased in 2009, Ralf Dahrendorf ranks 25. Before him are Raúl Alfonsín, Robert McNamara, Milorad Pavić, Ted Kennedy, Vivian Maier, and Vitaly Ginzburg. After him are Bobby Robson, Jean Dausset, Maurice Druon, Jack Kemp, Robert F. Furchgott, and Günther Rall.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ralf Dahrendorf ranks 769 out of 7,253. Before him are Joachim Frank (1940), Karl Harrer (1890), Ryke Geerd Hamer (1935), Matilda of Ringelheim (894), Hermann Weyl (1885), and Markus Wolf (1923). After him are Constantin Fehrenbach (1852), Juana Bormann (1893), James Last (1929), Therese Neumann (1898), Johann Joachim Quantz (1697), and Gustav Radbruch (1878).

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS In Germany

Among political scientists born in Germany, Ralf Dahrendorf ranks 3. Before him are Georg Jellinek (1851), and Hans Morgenthau (1904). After him are Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut (1772), and Carl Joachim Friedrich (1901).

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