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Hans-Georg Gadamer

1900 - 2002

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Hans-Georg Gadamer (; German: [ˈɡaːdamɐ]; 11 February 1900 – 13 March 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus on hermeneutics, Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hans-Georg Gadamer is the 125th most popular philosopher (up from 128th in 2019), the 192nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 170th in 2019) and the 18th most popular German Philosopher.

Hans-Georg Gadamer is most famous for his work in hermeneutics. He was a German philosopher who argued that interpretation is always in the context of the present.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Hans-Georg Gadamer ranks 125 out of 1,267. Before him are Ibn Taymiyyah, Bonaventure, Henri de Saint-Simon, Emmanuel Levinas, Ramon Llull, and Willard Van Orman Quine. After him are Marsilio Ficino, Chanakya, Pyrrho, Anaximenes of Miletus, Simone Weil, and Joseph Priestley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Hans-Georg Gadamer ranks 13. Before him are Charles Francis Richter, Hans Adolf Krebs, Luis Buñuel, Wolfgang Pauli, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Frédéric Joliot-Curie. After him are Hans Frank, Gladwyn Jebb, Dennis Gabor, Spencer Tracy, Heinrich Müller, and Eyvind Johnson. Among people deceased in 2002, Hans-Georg Gadamer ranks 7. Before him are Astrid Lindgren, Richard Harris, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Simo Häyhä, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, and Pierre Bourdieu. After him are Thor Heyerdahl, Archer Martin, Billy Wilder, Prince Claus of the Netherlands, John Rawls, and László Kubala.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans-Georg Gadamer ranks 192 out of 7,253. Before him are Sophia of Prussia (1870), Richard Willstätter (1872), Georgius Agricola (1494), Hermann von Helmholtz (1821), Paul Heyse (1830), and Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden (1710). After him are Friedrich Schlegel (1772), Leopold Mozart (1719), Johann Christian Bach (1735), Ernst Röhm (1887), Friedrich Ebert (1871), and Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor (990).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Hans-Georg Gadamer ranks 18. Before him are Jürgen Habermas (1929), Carl von Clausewitz (1780), Walter Benjamin (1892), Friedrich Fröbel (1782), Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767), and Meister Eckhart (1260). After him are Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776), Baron d'Holbach (1723), Wilhelm Dilthey (1833), Edith Stein (1891), Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714), and Max Stirner (1806).

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