PHILOSOPHER

Rüdiger Safranski

1945 - Today

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Rüdiger Safranski (born 1 January 1945) is a German philosopher and author. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rüdiger Safranski has received more than 99,706 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Rüdiger Safranski is the 946th most popular philosopher (up from 1,004th in 2019), the 3,403rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,712th in 2019) and the 120th most popular German Philosopher.

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  • 20

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  • 4.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Rüdiger Safranski ranks 946 out of 1,267Before him are Debendranath Tagore, Robert Anton Wilson, Samuel Alexander, Ibrahim al-Nazzam, Gabriel Biel, and Olavo de Carvalho. After him are Firmin Abauzit, Fernando Savater, Lacydes of Cyrene, Evald Ilyenkov, Tomáš Halík, and Cineas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Rüdiger Safranski ranks 277Before him are Leonard Adleman, Cem Karaca, Sylvester Levay, David D. Friedman, Pietro Grasso, and Sammy Gravano. After him are Bruno Nuytten, Adrienne Barbeau, Prawit Wongsuwon, Zdeňka Vávrová, Jim Davis, and Ali Akbar Velayati.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rüdiger Safranski ranks 3,403 out of 7,253Before him are Jan Ullrich (1973), Gabriel Biel (1418), Wilhelm Roux (1850), Werner Voss (1897), Erich Weinert (1890), and Heinrich Barkhausen (1881). After him are Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1633), Pavle Jurišić Šturm (1848), Hillel Furstenberg (1935), Caesarius of Heisterbach (1180), Curt von Bardeleben (1861), and Kurt Moll (1938).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Rüdiger Safranski ranks 120Before him are Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873), Johannes Agricola (1494), Erich Neumann (1905), Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743), Karl Groos (1861), and Gabriel Biel (1418). After him are Gottlob Ernst Schulze (1761), Heinrich Khunrath (1560), Friedrich Paulsen (1846), Robert Spaemann (1927), Hermann Usener (1834), and August Böckh (1785).