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Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde

1930 - 2019

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Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (German: [ɛʁnst ˈvɔlfɡaŋ ˈbœkŋ̍ˌføːɐ̯də]; 19 September 1930 – 24 February 2019) was a German legal scholar and a justice on Germany's Federal Constitutional Court. He was a professor at the University of Freiburg and the author of more than 20 books and 80 articles dealing with legal and constitutional theory, as well as political theory, political philosophy and Catholic political thought. Böckenförde was considered a member of the Ritter School. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde is the 1,182nd most popular philosopher (up from 1,184th in 2019), the 4,998th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,955th in 2019) and the 147th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde ranks 1,182 out of 1,267. Before him are Richard Posner, Hendrik Adamson, Michael Hardt, Volker Zotz, William Chittick, and Bas van Fraassen. After him are Imran N. Hosein, Iris Marion Young, Edward Abramowski, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Quentin Meillassoux, and Hector Boece.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde ranks 474. Before him are Ramón Alberto Villaverde, Burt Kwouk, Aloysius Ambrozic, Cabeção, Anton Donchev, and Kurt Biedenkopf. After him are Grace Lee Whitney, Alberto Pellegrino, Rafael Cadenas, Edoardo Sanguineti, Inomjon Usmonxoʻjayev, and Anatoly Kuznetsov. Among people deceased in 2019, Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde ranks 412. Before him are Anatoly Krutikov, Yoshihisa Yoshikawa, Ivan Vutsov, Michael D. Coe, Walter Lübcke, and Pino Caruso. After him are Nina Fyodorova, Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles, Ingemar Hedberg, Francesco Janich, Gianni De Michelis, and Ismail Petra of Kelantan.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde ranks 5,001 out of 7,253. Before him are Max Bodenstein (1871), Hans-Georg Aschenbach (1951), Eike Immel (1960), Frank Mill (1958), Kurt Biedenkopf (1930), and Georg Jacoby (1882). After him are Brigitte Reimann (1933), Gabriele Kuby (1944), Timo Glock (1982), Johann Wilhelm Meigen (1764), Liselott Linsenhoff (1927), and Andreas von Ettingshausen (1796).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde ranks 147. Before him are Wilhelm Gesenius (1786), Josef Pieper (1904), Adolf Grünbaum (1923), Dieter Henrich (1927), Friedrich Gogarten (1887), and Volker Zotz (1956). After him are Walter Kaufmann (1921), Hermann Lietz (1868), and Richard David Precht (1964).

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