PHILOSOPHER

Victor Basch

1863 - 1944

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Basch Viktor Vilém, or Victor-Guillaume Basch (18 August 1863/1865, Budapest – 10 January 1944) was a French Jewish politician and professor of germanistics and philosophy at the Sorbonne descending from Hungary. He was engaged in the Zionist movement, in the Ligue des droits de l'homme (president from 1926 to 1944) and in Anti-Nazism. His father was the journalist and political activist, Raphael Basch. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victor Basch has received more than 48,299 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Victor Basch is the 1,117th most popular philosopher, the 515th most popular biography from Hungary and the 6th most popular Hungarian Philosopher.

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  • 48k

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  • 55.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Victor Basch ranks 1,117 out of 1,267. Before him are Mario Perniola, Julián Marías, Boris Parygin, Amos Bronson Alcott, Kaibara Ekken, and Ivan Merz. After him are Luciano Floridi, Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Walter Burley, Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Michał Heller, and Max Bense.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Victor Basch ranks 133. Before him are Alfredo Panzini, Dmitry Grave, Alexander Serafimovich, Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis, János Hadik, and Zabel Sibil Asadour. After him are Axel Thue, Stanisław Zaremba, Richard Wettstein, Samuel P. Bush, Sylvain Lévi, and Ekvtime Takaishvili. Among people deceased in 1944, Victor Basch ranks 248. Before him are Wim Anderiesen, Oszkár Gerde, E. O. Plauen, Henry Wood, Pierre Brossolette, and Wendell Willkie. After him are Rudolf Harbig, Ștefania Mărăcineanu, Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, Jaan Kikkas, Shigeo Arai, and Dietrich Kraiss.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Victor Basch ranks 515 out of 1,077. Before him are Gyula Polgár (1912), Judit Temes (1930), Ede Király (1926), Kálmán Kandó (1869), Ferenc Szojka (1931), and István Balogh (1912). After him are Imre Komora (1940), George Gerbner (1919), Lajos Werkner (1883), Gedeon Barcza (1911), József Háda (1911), and Vilmos Kohut (1906).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Hungary

Among philosophers born in Hungary, Victor Basch ranks 6. Before him are Rudolf Steiner (1861), György Lukács (1885), Imre Lakatos (1922), Ágnes Heller (1929), and Ervin László (1932). After him are George Gerbner (1919), István Mészáros (1930), Thomas Sebeok (1920), and Stanley Jaki (1924).

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