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Theodor Lipps

1851 - 1914

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Theodor Lipps (German: [lɪps]; 28 July 1851 – 17 October 1914) was a German philosopher, known for his theory regarding aesthetics, creating the framework for the concept of Einfühlung (empathy), defined as, "projecting oneself onto the object of perception." This has then led onto opening up a new branch of interdisciplinary research in the overlap between psychology and philosophy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Theodor Lipps has received more than 125,151 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Theodor Lipps is the 626th most popular philosopher (up from 653rd in 2019), the 1,785th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,967th in 2019) and the 83rd most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Theodor Lipps ranks 626 out of 1,267. Before him are Vilém Flusser, Kitaro Nishida, Antonio Labriola, Alexander of Hales, Werner Jaeger, and Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov. After him are Shihab al-Din 'Umar al-Suhrawardi, Philipp Mainländer, Diogenes of Oenoanda, Ernst Nolte, David Hartley, and Gongsun Long.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Theodor Lipps ranks 30. Before him are Alexander, Prince of Orange, Bernardino Machado, Charles Dupuy, George Francis FitzGerald, Guillaume Bigourdan, and Emilia Pardo Bazán. After him are Edward Walter Maunder, Doc Holliday, Charles Dow, Princess Maria Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Angelo Moriondo, and Stephan Burián von Rajecz. Among people deceased in 1914, Theodor Lipps ranks 36. Before him are John Tenniel, Joseph Swan, Anatoly Lyadov, Jurji Zaydan, Christian Morgenstern, and Theodor Kittelsen. After him are Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Giuseppe Mercalli, Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Julio Argentino Roca, Angelo Moriondo, and Ivan Zajc.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Theodor Lipps ranks 1,785 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Ludwig Bach (1677), Louis VI, Elector Palatine (1539), Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg (1873), Christa Ludwig (1928), Carl Ludvig Engel (1778), and Wilhelm Zaisser (1893). After him are Wilhelm Marr (1819), Sebastian Vettel (1987), Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (1568), Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1764), Wilhelm Backhaus (1884), and Philipp Mainländer (1841).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Theodor Lipps ranks 83. Before him are Conrad Celtes (1459), Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781), Hans Albert (1921), Constantin von Tischendorf (1815), Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694), and Werner Jaeger (1888). After him are Philipp Mainländer (1841), Ernst Nolte (1923), Eugen Fink (1905), Friedrich Albert Lange (1828), Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769), and Franz Xaver von Baader (1765).

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