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Ernst von Glasersfeld

1917 - 2010

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Ernst von Glasersfeld (March 8, 1917, Munich – November 12, 2010, Leverett, Franklin County, Massachusetts) was a philosopher, and emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Georgia, research associate at the Scientific Reasoning Research Institute, and adjunct professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was a member of the board of trustees of the American Society for Cybernetics, from which he received the McCulloch Memorial Award in 1991. He was a member of the scientific board of the Instituto Piaget, Lisbon. Glasersfeld is known for the development of radical constructivism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ernst von Glasersfeld is the 970th most popular philosopher (down from 889th in 2019), the 3,551st most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,072nd in 2019) and the 121st most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ernst von Glasersfeld ranks 970 out of 1,267. Before him are Northrop Frye, Rüdiger Safranski, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, Phaenias of Eresus, Paul Janet, and Musaeus of Athens. After him are Daniel Bensaïd, Samuel Alexander, Antoine Berman, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Caspar Bartholin the Elder, and Lacydes of Cyrene.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Ernst von Glasersfeld ranks 170. Before him are Pío Leyva, Philipp von Boeselager, Armando Trovajoli, Văn Tiến Dũng, Dabbs Greer, and Suzy Delair. After him are Vasily Mishin, Mouloud Mammeri, Bertil Nordahl, Lena Horne, I Gusti Ngurah Rai, and Red Auerbach. Among people deceased in 2010, Ernst von Glasersfeld ranks 194. Before him are Tewhida Ben Sheikh, Manute Bol, Juan Carlos González, Gary Coleman, Palle Huld, and Salvador Jorge Blanco. After him are Corin Redgrave, Daniel Bensaïd, Norman Wisdom, Ronnie Clayton, Lena Horne, and Tzannis Tzannetakis.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst von Glasersfeld ranks 3,553 out of 7,253. Before him are Eleonore Dorothea of Anhalt-Dessau (1602), Karl-Josef Rauber (1934), Max August Zorn (1906), Helmut Walcha (1907), Adolf Stieler (1775), and Charles August, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (1685). After him are Adolf Martens (1850), Lilli Lehmann (1848), Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1748), Franz Roth (1946), Johann Most (1846), and Josef Kammhuber (1896).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Ernst von Glasersfeld ranks 121. Before him are Gottlob Ernst Schulze (1761), Valentin Weigel (1533), Heinrich Khunrath (1560), Erich Neumann (1905), Johannes Agricola (1494), and Rüdiger Safranski (1945). After him are Theodoric of Freiberg (1250), Paul Deussen (1845), Karl Groos (1861), Hermann Usener (1834), Gabriel Biel (1418), and Joachim Camerarius (1500).

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