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Samson Raphael Hirsch

1808 - 1888

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Samson Raphael Hirsch (Hebrew: שמשון רפאל הירש; June 20, 1808 – December 31, 1888) was a German Orthodox rabbi best known as the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism. Occasionally termed neo-Orthodoxy, his philosophy, together with that of Azriel Hildesheimer, has had a considerable influence on the development of Orthodox Judaism. Hirsch was rabbi in Oldenburg, Emden, and was subsequently appointed chief rabbi of Moravia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samson Raphael Hirsch has received more than 267,463 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Samson Raphael Hirsch is the 2,627th most popular writer (down from 2,614th in 2019), the 2,706th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,596th in 2019) and the 169th most popular German Writer.

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Among writers, Samson Raphael Hirsch ranks 2,627 out of 5,755. Before him are Banana Yoshimoto, Charlie Kaufman, Herbert Read, Juan Gelman, Duris of Samos, and Mickey Spillane. After him are Jeremias Gotthelf, Yasushi Inoue, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Takuboku Ishikawa, Lucía Sánchez Saornil, and May Ziade.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, Samson Raphael Hirsch ranks 33. Before him are Emma Darwin, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, Henrik Wergeland, George Robert Gray, Venancio Flores, and Urbano Rattazzi. After him are Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval, Prince Frederick of Württemberg, Karl Friedrich Lessing, Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, James Nasmyth, and Henry Cole. Among people deceased in 1888, Samson Raphael Hirsch ranks 46. Before him are Vsevolod Garshin, Josif Pančić, Princess Marie of Prussia, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, Joseph Dietzgen, and Mikhail Loris-Melikov. After him are Victoria Benedictsson, Raffi, Jean-Delphin Alard, Princess Marie Frederica of Hesse-Kassel, Heinrich Anton de Bary, and Eunice Newton Foote.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Samson Raphael Hirsch ranks 2,706 out of 6,142. Before him are Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743), Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1614), Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (1891), Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1646), Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775), and Joachim Streich (1951). After him are John Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1627), Gisèle Freund (1908), Adelaide, Abbess of Vilich (960), Carl, Duke of Württemberg (1936), Klaus Allofs (1956), and Johann Christian Reil (1759).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Samson Raphael Hirsch ranks 169. Before him are Mina Witkojc (1893), August von Platen-Hallermünde (1796), Martin Walser (1927), George Mosse (1918), Armin T. Wegner (1886), and Stefan Heym (1913). After him are Albert of Aix (1060), Alfred Andersch (1914), Malwida von Meysenbug (1816), Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739), Matthias Claudius (1740), and Gertrud von Le Fort (1876).

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