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Annemarie Schimmel

1922 - 2003

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Annemarie Schimmel SI HI TCLN (7 April 1922 – 26 January 2003) was an influential German Orientalist and scholar who wrote extensively on Islam, especially Sufism. She was a professor at Harvard University from 1967 to 1992. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Annemarie Schimmel is the 540th most popular philosopher (down from 516th in 2019), the 1,543rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,388th in 2019) and the 69th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Annemarie Schimmel ranks 540 out of 1,267. Before her are Gianni Vattimo, Myia, Charles W. Morris, Marpa Lotsawa, Crates of Athens, and Jan Patočka. After her are Ammonius Hermiae, Salomon Maimon, Luis de Molina, Albert of Saxony, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, and P. D. Ouspensky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Annemarie Schimmel ranks 90. Before her are Jean-Pierre Rampal, Carlo M. Cipolla, Sven Nykvist, Karl-Otto Apel, Carl Reiner, and Dana Zátopková. After her are Veronica Lake, Árpád Göncz, Damiano Damiani, Alistair MacLean, Carlos Andrés Pérez, and Paul Marcinkus. Among people deceased in 2003, Annemarie Schimmel ranks 67. Before her are László Papp, Edgar F. Codd, Valentin Pavlov, Anna Lindh, Ilan Ramon, and Isao Iwabuchi. After her are Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Georg Henrik von Wright, Robert Atkins, Elem Klimov, Miloš Milutinović, and Bob Hope.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Annemarie Schimmel ranks 1,543 out of 7,253. Before her are Karl August von Hardenberg (1750), Douglas Sirk (1897), Walther Gerlach (1889), Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1591), Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal (1861), and Alice Weidel (1979). After her are Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1831), Rudolf Diels (1900), William I, Duke of Bavaria (1330), Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg (1875), Theodor Escherich (1857), and Willi Herold (1925).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Annemarie Schimmel ranks 69. Before her are Johannes Althusius (1563), Axel Honneth (1949), Karl Löwith (1897), Ludwig Büchner (1824), Karl-Otto Apel (1922), and Carl Stumpf (1848). After her are Albert of Saxony (1316), Karl Korsch (1886), Hans Vaihinger (1852), Philipp Mainländer (1841), Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781), and Werner Jaeger (1888).

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