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Hans Morgenthau

1904 - 1980

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Hans Joachim Morgenthau (February 17, 1904 – July 19, 1980) was a German-American jurist and political scientist who was one of the major 20th-century figures in the study of international relations. Morgenthau's works belong to the tradition of realism in international relations theory; he is usually considered among the most influential realists of the post-World War II period. Morgenthau made landmark contributions to international relations theory and the study of international law. His Politics Among Nations, first published in 1948, went through five editions during his lifetime and was widely adopted as a textbook in U.S. universities. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Morgenthau is the 6th most popular political scientist (up from 8th in 2019), the 708th most popular biography from Germany (down from 684th in 2019) and the most popular German Political Scientist.

Hans Morgenthau is most famous for his work in the field of international relations. He was a professor at the University of Chicago for many years and wrote extensively on the subject of international relations. He was also the author of Politics Among Nations, which is considered one of the best books on international relations in the 20th century.

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS

Among political scientists, Hans Morgenthau ranks 6 out of 46. Before him are Samuel P. Huntington, Étienne de La Boétie, Robert A. Dahl, Christian Lous Lange, and Francis Fukuyama. After him are Aleksandr Dugin, Benedict Anderson, Georg Jellinek, Johan Galtung, Harold Lasswell, and Ralf Dahrendorf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Hans Morgenthau ranks 32. Before him are Joan Crawford, Ernst Mayr, Hans Albert Einstein, Werner Forssmann, Alejo Carpentier, and Gerhard Herzberg. After him are Witold Gombrowicz, Glenn Miller, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Luis Carrero Blanco, Antonín Novotný, and Lucile Randon. Among people deceased in 1980, Hans Morgenthau ranks 36. Before him are Óscar Romero, Willard Libby, John Bonham, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Alejo Carpentier, and Milton H. Erickson. After him are Oswald Mosley, C. P. Snow, Hans Asperger, Gregory Bateson, Robert Whittaker, and John Hasbrouck Van Vleck.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Morgenthau ranks 708 out of 7,253. Before him are Walter Hallstein (1901), Prince William of Hesse-Kassel (1787), Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt (1765), Frederick IV, Elector Palatine (1574), Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795), and Richard Baer (1911). After him are Ernst Udet (1896), Julia Drusilla (16), Prince Leopold of Bavaria (1846), Frank Farian (1941), Karl Gebhardt (1897), and Otto Strasser (1897).

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS In Germany

Among political scientists born in Germany, Hans Morgenthau ranks 1. After him are Georg Jellinek (1851), Ralf Dahrendorf (1929), Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut (1772), and Carl Joachim Friedrich (1901).

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