PHILOSOPHER

Rudolf Steiner

1861 - 1925

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Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (27 or 25 February 1861 – 30 March 1925) was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolf Steiner has received more than 3,817,976 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Rudolf Steiner is the 73rd most popular philosopher (down from 70th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Hungarian Philosopher.

Rudolf Steiner is most famous for his philosophy of anthroposophy. He was a philosopher, architect, and social reformer.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Rudolf Steiner ranks 73 out of 1,267. Before him are Antonio Gramsci, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Ludwig Feuerbach, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Zeno of Citium, and Karl Jaspers. After him are George Berkeley, Ramakrishna, Jürgen Habermas, Xenophanes, Nagarjuna, and Carl von Clausewitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Rudolf Steiner ranks 3. Before him are Rabindranath Tagore, and Mehmed VI. After him are Fridtjof Nansen, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Georges Méliès, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Victor Horta, Erich von Falkenhayn, Georgy Lvov, and Alfred North Whitehead. Among people deceased in 1925, Rudolf Steiner ranks 2. Before him is Sun Yat-sen. After him are Erik Satie, Friedrich Ebert, Alexandra of Denmark, Gottlob Frege, William Jennings Bryan, Georgy Lvov, Sergei Yesenin, Henri Fayol, Josef Breuer, and Felix Klein.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Rudolf Steiner ranks 7 out of 1,077. Before him are Martin of Tours (316), Ferenc Puskás (1927), Theodor Herzl (1860), Elizabeth Báthory (1560), Matthias Corvinus (1443), and Edward Teller (1908). After him are Harry Houdini (1874), Stephen I of Hungary (975), John von Neumann (1903), George Soros (1930), Miklós Horthy (1868), and Ignaz Semmelweis (1818).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Hungary

Among philosophers born in Hungary, Rudolf Steiner ranks 1. After him are György Lukács (1885), Imre Lakatos (1922), Ágnes Heller (1929), Ervin László (1932), Victor Basch (1863), George Gerbner (1919), István Mészáros (1930), Thomas Sebeok (1920), and Stanley Jaki (1924).

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