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Arthur Oncken Lovejoy

1873 - 1962

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Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (October 10, 1873 – December 30, 1962) was an American philosopher and intellectual historian, who founded the discipline known as the history of ideas with his book The Great Chain of Being (1936), on the topic of that name, which has been described as 'probably the single most influential work in the history of ideas in the United States during the last half century'. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1932. In 1940, he founded the Journal of the History of Ideas. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Oncken Lovejoy is the 876th most popular philosopher (up from 905th in 2019), the 3,077th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,157th in 2019) and the 110th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy ranks 876 out of 1,267. Before him are Ted Nelson, Raymond Williams, William of Conches, Ian Hacking, Arethas of Caesarea, and Dietrich von Hildebrand. After him are Johann Heinrich Alsted, Hermippus of Smyrna, Hugo Kołłątaj, Alexander Zinoviev, Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, and Paul de Man.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy ranks 94. Before him are Gabriel Terra, Joseph Jongen, Ramón Castillo, Henri Helle, Józef Haller, and Daisy, Princess of Pless. After him are Matteo Bartoli, José Martínez Ruiz, Willa Cather, Gyula Peidl, Henry, Duke of Parma, and Marcel Boulenger. Among people deceased in 1962, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy ranks 93. Before him are Indalecio Prieto, Princess Bathildis of Schaumburg-Lippe, William Clothier, Juan Belmonte, Francisco Bru, and Pedro Pablo Ramírez. After him are Mouloud Feraoun, Eugene Aynsley Goossens, Franz Konwitschny, Franz Kline, José Giral, and Max Vasmer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy ranks 3,079 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1754), Heinrich Marx (1777), Georg Franz Hoffmann (1760), Richard Dehmel (1863), Friedrich Sixt von Armin (1851), and Otto Wilhelm Thomé (1840). After him are Adolf Erman (1854), John I, Duke of Saxony (1249), Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588), Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1772), Helmut Jahn (1940), and Klaus Tennstedt (1926).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy ranks 110. Before him are Leo Löwenthal (1900), Franz Xaver von Baader (1765), Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743), Hans Robert Jauss (1921), Hans Albert (1921), and August Böckh (1785). After him are Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588), Albrecht Ritschl (1822), Rudolf Stammler (1856), Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773), Gottlob Ernst Schulze (1761), and Valentin Weigel (1533).

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