1892 - 1940
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (; German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈbɛnjamiːn]; 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist. An eclectic thinker, combining elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, and Jewish mysticism, Benjamin made enduring and influential contributions to aesthetic theory, literary criticism, and historical materialism. He was associated with the Frankfurt School, and also maintained formative friendships with thinkers such as playwright Bertolt Brecht and Kabbalah scholar Gershom Scholem. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Benjamin has received more than 2,089,875 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Walter Benjamin is the 96th most popular philosopher (down from 83rd in 2019), the 117th most popular biography from Germany (down from 102nd in 2019) and the 13th most popular German Philosopher.
Walter Benjamin was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, and essayist. His most famous work is "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction."
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Among philosophers, Walter Benjamin ranks 96 out of 1,081. Before him are Leucippus, John of Damascus, Zeno of Citium, Tertullian, Johann Gottfried Herder, and Anaximenes of Miletus. After him are Mencius, Zhuang Zhou, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Isidore of Seville, Roland Barthes, and Ibn Taymiyyah.
500 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 74.81
Rank: 90
676 - 749
HPI: 74.70
Rank: 91
334 BC - 263 BC
HPI: 74.66
Rank: 92
155 - 220
HPI: 74.59
Rank: 93
1744 - 1803
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 94
585 BC - 525 BC
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 95
1892 - 1940
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 96
372 BC - 289 BC
HPI: 74.23
Rank: 97
369 BC - 286 BC
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 98
1809 - 1865
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 99
560 - 636
HPI: 74.08
Rank: 100
1915 - 1980
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 101
1263 - 1328
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 102
Among people born in 1892, Walter Benjamin ranks 5. Before him are J. R. R. Tolkien, Josip Broz Tito, Francisco Franco, and Haile Selassie. After him are Louis de Broglie, Manfred von Richthofen, Ivo Andrić, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Pearl S. Buck, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, and Martin Niemöller. Among people deceased in 1940, Walter Benjamin ranks 7. Before him are Leon Trotsky, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Selma Lagerlöf, Neville Chamberlain, Paul Klee, and Mikhail Bulgakov. After him are J. J. Thomson, Robert Wadlow, Nikolai Yezhov, Emma Goldman, Carl Bosch, and Peter Behrens.
1892 - 1973
HPI: 88.02
Rank: 1
1892 - 1980
HPI: 83.57
Rank: 2
1892 - 1975
HPI: 82.22
Rank: 3
1892 - 1975
HPI: 75.97
Rank: 4
1892 - 1940
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 5
1892 - 1987
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 6
1892 - 1918
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 7
1892 - 1975
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 8
1892 - 1989
HPI: 72.44
Rank: 9
1892 - 1973
HPI: 72.13
Rank: 10
1892 - 1946
HPI: 71.98
Rank: 11
1892 - 1984
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 12
1879 - 1940
HPI: 84.04
Rank: 1
1896 - 1940
HPI: 80.19
Rank: 2
1858 - 1940
HPI: 77.70
Rank: 3
1869 - 1940
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 4
1879 - 1940
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 5
1891 - 1940
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 6
1892 - 1940
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 7
1856 - 1940
HPI: 73.01
Rank: 8
1918 - 1940
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 9
1895 - 1940
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 10
1869 - 1940
HPI: 68.27
Rank: 11
1874 - 1940
HPI: 68.21
Rank: 12
1868 - 1940
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 13
Among people born in Germany, Walter Benjamin ranks 117 out of 6,142. Before him are Carl Orff (1895), Leopold Mozart (1719), Erich Honecker (1912), Ernst Röhm (1887), Frederick III, German Emperor (1831), and George II of Great Britain (1683). After him are Henry the Fowler (876), Theodor W. Adorno (1903), Gerd von Rundstedt (1875), Clara Zetkin (1857), George I of Great Britain (1660), and Georg Philipp Telemann (1681).
1895 - 1982
HPI: 74.68
Rank: 111
1719 - 1787
HPI: 74.56
Rank: 112
1912 - 1994
HPI: 74.49
Rank: 113
1887 - 1934
HPI: 74.47
Rank: 114
1831 - 1888
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 115
1683 - 1760
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 116
1892 - 1940
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 117
876 - 936
HPI: 74.23
Rank: 118
1903 - 1969
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 119
1875 - 1953
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 120
1857 - 1933
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 121
1660 - 1727
HPI: 73.97
Rank: 122
1681 - 1767
HPI: 73.96
Rank: 123
Among philosophers born in Germany, Walter Benjamin ranks 13. Before him are Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762), Karl Jaspers (1883), Jürgen Habermas (1929), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775), Nicholas of Cusa (1401), and Carl von Clausewitz (1780). After him are Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767), Friedrich Fröbel (1782), Meister Eckhart (1260), Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900), and Oswald Spengler (1880).
1762 - 1814
HPI: 76.97
Rank: 7
1883 - 1969
HPI: 76.82
Rank: 8
1929 - Present
HPI: 76.11
Rank: 9
1775 - 1854
HPI: 75.94
Rank: 10
1401 - 1464
HPI: 75.36
Rank: 11
1780 - 1831
HPI: 75.15
Rank: 12
1892 - 1940
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 13
1767 - 1835
HPI: 73.66
Rank: 14
1782 - 1852
HPI: 73.34
Rank: 15
1260 - 1328
HPI: 73.00
Rank: 16
1776 - 1841
HPI: 72.52
Rank: 17
1900 - 2002
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 18
1880 - 1936
HPI: 71.99
Rank: 19