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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 20,660 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Walter Kaufmann is the 1,129th most popular philosopher (down from 1,073rd in 2019), the 4,686th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,319th in 2019) and the 132nd most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Walter Kaufmann ranks 1,129 out of 1,081Before him are Rambhadracharya, Bernard Bosanquet, Charles Hartshorne, Sara Danius, C. H. Dodd, and Patricia Hill Collins. After him are Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Richard David Precht, Peter Geach, Alexander Tarasov, Susan Haack, and C. I. Lewis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Walter Kaufmann ranks 367Before him are Jerzy Stefan Stawiński, Gene Saks, Lennart Strand, Jacques Friedel, Paul Falk, and Gordon Thomas. After him are Sheb Wooley, Patricia Wrightson, Cliff Bourland, François Picard, Brian Moore, and Kurt Marti. Among people deceased in 1980, Walter Kaufmann ranks 248Before him are Ilie Subășeanu, Walter Susskind, Christian Møller, Zakaria Chihab, Héctor Socorro, and Bette Nesmith Graham. After him are Olivia Manning, Gumercindo Gómez, Charley Borah, John McEwen, Hattie Jacques, and Barbara Loden.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walter Kaufmann ranks 4,686 out of 6,142Before him are Frank Schätzing (1957), Hannelore Kraft (1961), Volker Strassen (1936), Katrin Göring-Eckardt (1966), Toni Ulmen (1906), and Peter Wohlleben (1964). After him are Tim Wiese (1981), Tomislav Marić (1973), Aki Schmidt (1935), Richard David Precht (1964), Wolfgang Peters (1929), and Shawn Bradley (1972).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Walter Kaufmann ranks 132Before him are Paul Deussen (1845), Martin Chemnitz (1522), Hermann Gunkel (1862), Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (1930), F. C. S. Schiller (1864), and Volker Zotz (1956). After him are Richard David Precht (1964).