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Gustav Landauer

1870 - 1919

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Gustav Landauer (7 April 1870 – 2 May 1919) was a German philosopher, writer, and a leading theorist of anarchism in Germany at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. He was an advocate of social anarchism and an avowed pacifist. Landauer's social thought, a blend of romanticism, mysticism, and libertarian socialism, centered on the concept of Gemeinschaft (community) as a means to achieve an anarchist society. He was a powerful critic of capitalism, militarism, bureaucratic authority, and orthodox Marxism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gustav Landauer is the 1,499th most popular writer (up from 1,571st in 2019), the 1,604th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,670th in 2019) and the 98th most popular German Writer.

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Among writers, Gustav Landauer ranks 1,499 out of 7,302. Before him are François de Malherbe, B. K. S. Iyengar, Robert Bloch, Robin Hobb, Ibn al-Khatib, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. After him are Gampopa, August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Mario Benedetti, Olaus Petri, Régis Debray, and Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy.

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Among people born in 1870, Gustav Landauer ranks 46. Before him are Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, Nariman Narimanov, Jan Smuts, Bernard Baruch, Alexander Berkman, and Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria. After him are Marianne Weber, Lord Alfred Douglas, Jaime, Duke of Madrid, Michael Rostovtzeff, Charles Bennett, and Princess Henriette of Belgium. Among people deceased in 1919, Gustav Landauer ranks 46. Before him are Terauchi Masatake, Madam C. J. Walker, Vera Zasulich, Hermann Weingärtner, Endre Ady, and Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia. After him are Adolf Schmal, Adolf Hurwitz, Leo Jogiches, Hugo Riemann, Vasily Chapayev, and Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gustav Landauer ranks 1,604 out of 7,253. Before him are Kurt Franz (1914), Otto Wels (1873), Rudi Dutschke (1940), Carl Correns (1864), Richard Glücks (1889), and Méret Oppenheim (1913). After him are Wolf Vostell (1932), Friedrich Wetter (1928), Karl Korsch (1886), August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798), Frederick II, Elector Palatine (1482), and Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1746).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Gustav Landauer ranks 98. Before him are Wilhelm Weitling (1808), Hartmann Schedel (1440), Joachim Fest (1926), Ernst Hanfstaengl (1887), Albert of Aix (1060), and Paul Rée (1849). After him are August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798), Siegfried Lenz (1926), Marianne Weber (1870), Heiner Müller (1929), Lina Heydrich (1911), and Gottfried August Bürger (1747).

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