PHILOSOPHER

Vilém Flusser

1920 - 1991

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Vilém Flusser (May 12, 1920 – November 27, 1991) was a Czech-born Brazilian philosopher, writer and journalist. He lived for a long period in São Paulo (where he became a Brazilian citizen) and later in France, and his works are written in many different languages. His early work was marked by discussion of the thought of Martin Heidegger, and by the influence of existentialism and phenomenology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vilém Flusser has received more than 251,195 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Vilém Flusser is the 620th most popular philosopher (down from 534th in 2019), the 206th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 178th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Czech Philosopher.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Vilém Flusser ranks 620 out of 1,267. Before him are Hermann Samuel Reimarus, Berengar of Tours, Reinhold Niebuhr, Kuno Fischer, Marpa Lotsawa, and Dharmakirti. After him are Kitaro Nishida, Antonio Labriola, Alexander of Hales, Werner Jaeger, Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov, and Theodor Lipps.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Vilém Flusser ranks 100. Before him are Heinz Hitler, Kim Yong-ju, Peggy Lee, Eileen Chang, Bruno Maderna, and Roberto Calvi. After him are Constanze Manziarly, Henry Heimlich, Pierre Plantard, José Mauro de Vasconcelos, Jack Warden, and Victor Turner. Among people deceased in 1991, Vilém Flusser ranks 68. Before him are Jerzy Kosiński, Lee Remick, William Heinesen, Jean Arthur, Henri de Lubac, and Demetrios I of Constantinople. After him are Sergey Akhromeyev, Giacomo Manzù, Héctor Rial, María Zambrano, Willi Boskovsky, and Edmond Jabès.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Vilém Flusser ranks 206 out of 1,200. Before him are Jan Syrový (1888), Jiří Trnka (1912), Miloš Jakeš (1922), Ivan Klíma (1931), Catherine of Poděbrady (1449), and Bořivoj II, Duke of Bohemia (1064). After him are Egon Kisch (1885), Franz Bardon (1909), Otfried Preußler (1923), Otto Kittel (1917), Jan Kodeš (1946), and Karl von Terzaghi (1883).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Czechia

Among philosophers born in Czechia, Vilém Flusser ranks 8. Before him are Edmund Husserl (1859), Hans Kelsen (1881), Karl Kautsky (1854), Bernard Bolzano (1781), Jerome of Prague (1379), and Jan Patočka (1907). After him are Karel Kosík (1926), Theodor Gomperz (1832), František Tomášek (1899), Tomáš Halík (1948), Herbert Feigl (1902), and Egon Bondy (1930).

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