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Carl Schmitt

1888 - 1985

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Carl Schmitt (11 July 1888 – 7 April 1985) was a German jurist, author, and political theorist. Schmitt wrote extensively about the effective wielding of political power. An authoritarian conservative theorist, he was noted as a critic of parliamentary democracy, liberalism, and cosmopolitanism. His works covered political theory, legal theory, continental philosophy, and political theology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Schmitt is the 181st most popular philosopher (down from 155th in 2019), the 311th most popular biography from Germany (down from 242nd in 2019) and the 30th most popular German Philosopher.

Carl Schmitt was a German jurist and political theorist who is most famous for his theories on the concept of the "political".

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Carl Schmitt ranks 181 out of 1,267. Before him are Posidonius, Marquis de Condorcet, Hippias, Jean Buridan, Ram Mohan Roy, and Julien Offray de La Mettrie. After him are Cesare Beccaria, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Claude Adrien Helvétius, Jean Baudrillard, Sextus Empiricus, and José Ortega y Gasset.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Carl Schmitt ranks 18. Before him are Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Nikolai Bukharin, Nestor Makhno, John Logie Baird, Giorgio de Chirico, and Abul Kalam Azad. After him are C. V. Raman, Jean Monnet, Frits Zernike, Raymond Chandler, Eugene O'Neill, and Selman Waksman. Among people deceased in 1985, Carl Schmitt ranks 12. Before him are Charles Francis Richter, Macfarlane Burnet, Orson Welles, Rodney Robert Porter, Italo Calvino, and Fernand Braudel. After him are Jean Dubuffet, László Bíró, Simone Signoret, Philip Larkin, Rock Hudson, and Simon Kuznets.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Schmitt ranks 311 out of 7,253. Before him are Kurt von Schleicher (1882), Duchess Helene in Bavaria (1834), Wilm Hosenfeld (1895), Christian I of Denmark (1426), Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856), and Helmut Schmidt (1918). After him are Albrecht Altdorfer (1480), Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb (1876), Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria (1808), Karl Ziegler (1898), Baldur von Schirach (1907), and Hermann Staudinger (1881).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Carl Schmitt ranks 30. Before him are Max Stirner (1806), Max Scheler (1874), Oswald Spengler (1880), Herbert Marcuse (1898), Athanasius Kircher (1602), and Ferdinand Tönnies (1855). After him are Max Horkheimer (1895), Rudolf Carnap (1891), Moses Mendelssohn (1729), Ernst Bloch (1885), Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743), and Franz Brentano (1838).

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