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Franz Neumann

1900 - 1954

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Franz Leopold Neumann (23 May 1900 – 2 September 1954) was a German political activist, Western Marxist theorist and labor lawyer, who became a political scientist in exile and is best known for his theoretical analyses of Nazism. He studied in Germany and the United Kingdom, and spent the last phase of his career in the United States, where he worked for the Office of Strategic Services from 1943 to 1945. During the Second World War, Neumann spied for the Soviet Union under the code-name "Ruff". Together with Ernst Fraenkel and Arnold Bergstraesser, Neumann is considered to be among the founders of modern political science in the Federal Republic of Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Neumann is the 704th most popular philosopher (up from 797th in 2019), the 446th most popular biography from Poland (up from 548th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Polish Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Franz Neumann ranks 704 out of 1,267. Before him are Rudolph Goclenius, Kuno Fischer, Gongsun Long, Karl Vogt, Mary Parker Follett, and Charles Renouvier. After him are Herman of Carinthia, Péter Pázmány, Henry More, Mario Bunge, Francesco Algarotti, and Stephen Toulmin.

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Among people born in 1900, Franz Neumann ranks 104. Before him are Eduardo De Filippo, Franziska Donner, George Uhlenbeck, Jean Duvieusart, Miguel Alemán Valdés, and Mervyn LeRoy. After him are Arturo Umberto Illia, Ernst Neufert, Herbert Bayer, Roman Steinberg, Emanuel Ringelblum, and Evald Aav. Among people deceased in 1954, Franz Neumann ranks 54. Before him are Oscar Straus, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, Edwin Howard Armstrong, Lionel Barrymore, Princess Antonia of Luxembourg, and Jess McMahon. After him are Marius Jacob, Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Friedrich Meinecke, Ahmed Nihad, Princess Maria Ludwiga Theresia of Bavaria, and William Hoyt.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Franz Neumann ranks 446 out of 1,694. Before him are Kuno Fischer (1824), Zbigniew of Poland (1070), Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874), Hedwig Jagiellon, Electress of Brandenburg (1513), Christoph Eschenbach (1940), and Leszek the White (1186). After him are Mateusz Morawiecki (1968), Arthur Zimmermann (1864), Konrad von Jungingen (1355), Ernst Niekisch (1889), Uri Orlev (1931), and Anny Ondra (1903).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Poland

Among philosophers born in Poland, Franz Neumann ranks 19. Before him are Leszek Kołakowski (1927), Chaïm Perelman (1912), Johannes Bugenhagen (1485), Roman Ingarden (1893), John Cantius (1390), and Kuno Fischer (1824). After him are Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928), Symon Budny (1530), Florian Znaniecki (1882), Józef Maria Bocheński (1902), Leo Baeck (1873), and Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907).

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