PHILOSOPHER

Rudolf Carnap

1891 - 1970

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Rudolf Carnap (; German: [ˈkaʁnaːp]; 18 May 1891 – 14 September 1970) was a German-language philosopher who was active in Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolf Carnap has received more than 657,459 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Rudolf Carnap is the 213th most popular philosopher (down from 204th in 2019), the 380th most popular biography from Germany (down from 361st in 2019) and the 34th most popular German Philosopher.

Rudolf Carnap is most famous for his work on logic and the philosophy of science.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Rudolf Carnap ranks 213 out of 1,267. Before him are Bias of Priene, Georgi Plekhanov, Julia Kristeva, Gabriel Marcel, Joseph de Maistre, and Gaston Bachelard. After him are Benedetto Croce, Diogenes of Apollonia, Miguel de Unamuno, Imre Lakatos, George Herbert Mead, and Julius Evola.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Rudolf Carnap ranks 16. Before him are Edith Stein, James Chadwick, John Howard Northrop, Pär Lagerkvist, Henry Miller, and Otto Dix. After him are Rafael Trujillo, Genrikh Yagoda, Helmuth Weidling, Walther Bothe, Ilya Ehrenburg, and Fritz Todt. Among people deceased in 1970, Rudolf Carnap ranks 21. Before him are François Mauriac, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Peter II of Yugoslavia, Édouard Daladier, Paul Celan, and Otto Heinrich Warburg. After him are Semyon Timoshenko, Leslie Groves, C. V. Raman, Eric Berne, Jochen Rindt, and Andrey Yeryomenko.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rudolf Carnap ranks 380 out of 7,253. Before him are Peter Behrens (1868), Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787), Joachim Löw (1960), Otto Lilienthal (1848), Caroline Herschel (1750), and Werner Herzog (1942). After him are Albrecht Kossel (1853), Alfred von Schlieffen (1833), Alexandra Feodorovna (1798), Pina Bausch (1940), Christopher of Bavaria (1416), and Hermann Fegelein (1906).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Rudolf Carnap ranks 34. Before him are Carl Schmitt (1888), Ferdinand Tönnies (1855), Max Horkheimer (1895), Athanasius Kircher (1602), Moses Mendelssohn (1729), and Adam Weishaupt (1748). After him are Ernst Bloch (1885), Hugh of Saint Victor (1096), Hans Jonas (1903), Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743), Bruno Bauer (1809), and Johann Reuchlin (1455).

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