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Edith Stein

1891 - 1942

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Edith Stein (; German: [ʃtaɪn]; in religion Teresa Benedicta of the Cross; 12 October 1891 – 9 August 1942) was a German philosopher who converted to Catholicism and became a Discalced Carmelite nun. Edith Stein was murdered in the gas chamber at the concentration camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau on 9 August 1942, and is canonized as a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church; she is also one of six patron saints of Europe. Stein was born into an observant German Jewish family, but had become an agnostic by her teenage years. Moved by the tragedies of World War I, in 1915, she took lessons to become a nursing assistant and worked in an infectious diseases hospital. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edith Stein is the 145th most popular philosopher (down from 144th in 2019), the 234th most popular biography from Germany (down from 214th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular German Philosopher.

Edith Stein was a German-Jewish philosopher and a convert to Catholicism. She is most famous for her work on the phenomenology of religion.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Edith Stein ranks 145 out of 1,267. Before her are Charles Fourier, Duns Scotus, Baron d'Holbach, Mozi, Kanada, and Wilhelm Dilthey. After her are Chrysippus, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Isocrates, Proclus, Buddhaghosa, and Emanuel Swedenborg.

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Among people born in 1891, Edith Stein ranks 11. Before her are B. R. Ambedkar, Mikhail Bulgakov, Max Ernst, Nelly Sachs, James Chadwick, and Walter Model. After her are Pär Lagerkvist, John Howard Northrop, Walther Bothe, Henry Miller, Rudolf Carnap, and Helmuth Weidling. Among people deceased in 1942, Edith Stein ranks 5. Before her are Stefan Zweig, Reinhard Heydrich, Janusz Korczak, and Richard Willstätter. After her are José Raúl Capablanca, Jean Baptiste Perrin, William Henry Bragg, Bronisław Malinowski, Robert Musil, Walther von Reichenau, and Anton Drexler.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Edith Stein ranks 234 out of 7,253. Before her are Wilhelm Dilthey (1833), Karl Liebknecht (1871), Adolf Butenandt (1903), Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928), Emmy Noether (1882), and Lothair II, Holy Roman Emperor (1075). After her are Arnulf of Carinthia (850), Hans Memling (1435), Otto Diels (1876), Alois Alzheimer (1864), Maria Sophie of Bavaria (1841), and Matthias Grünewald (1480).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Edith Stein ranks 22. Before her are Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767), Meister Eckhart (1260), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900), Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776), Baron d'Holbach (1723), and Wilhelm Dilthey (1833). After her are Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714), Max Stirner (1806), Max Scheler (1874), Oswald Spengler (1880), Herbert Marcuse (1898), and Athanasius Kircher (1602).

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