PHILOSOPHER

Walter Kaufmann

1921 - 1980

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Walter Arnold Kaufmann (July 1, 1921 – September 4, 1980) was a German-American philosopher, translator, and poet. A prolific author, he wrote extensively on a broad range of subjects, such as authenticity and death, moral philosophy and existentialism, theism and atheism, Christianity and Judaism, as well as philosophy and literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Kaufmann has received more than 22,037 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Walter Kaufmann is the 1,207th most popular philosopher (down from 1,129th in 2019), the 5,205th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,672nd in 2019) and the 148th most popular German Philosopher.

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  • 3.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Walter Kaufmann ranks 1,207 out of 1,267. Before him are Susan Haack, R. C. Sproul, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Alexander Tarasov, Patricia Hill Collins, and Dugald Stewart. After him are Simon Blackburn, J. J. C. Smart, Volker Zotz, Wendy Brown, Alister McGrath, and Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Walter Kaufmann ranks 384. Before him are Sam Tingle, Giuseppe Moro, Julia Hartwig, Yevgeni Babich, Kjell Rosén, and Al Pease. After him are Big Walter Horton, Norman Joseph Woodland, Lennart Strand, Ron Greenwood, Geoffrey Crossley, and Rodger Ward. Among people deceased in 1980, Walter Kaufmann ranks 263. Before him are Louis Neefs, Alberto Soria, David A. Johnston, Walter Susskind, Mustapha Choukri, and Ilie Subășeanu. After him are David Marr, Domingo Acedo, Dick Haymes, Walter Rodney, William Hood Simpson, and Ahmet Berman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walter Kaufmann ranks 5,205 out of 7,253. Before him are Georg Stollenwerk (1930), Marina Lewycka (1946), Maria Sander (1924), Oleh Kuznetsov (1963), Ernst Messerschmid (1945), and Mario Theissen (1952). After him are Sabine Busch (1962), Karl Kreutzberg (1912), Ernst Klodwig (1903), Joachim Winkelhock (1960), Jörg Heinrich (1969), and Otto Bartning (1883).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Walter Kaufmann ranks 148. Before him are Martin Chemnitz (1522), Friedrich Gogarten (1887), Dieter Henrich (1927), F. C. S. Schiller (1864), Hermann Lietz (1868), and Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (1930). After him are Volker Zotz (1956), and Richard David Precht (1964).

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