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Helmuth Plessner

1892 - 1985

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Helmuth Plessner (4 September 1892, Wiesbaden – 12 June 1985, Göttingen) was a German philosopher and sociologist, and a primary advocate of "philosophical anthropology". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Helmuth Plessner is the 773rd most popular philosopher (down from 695th in 2019), the 2,524th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,117th in 2019) and the 98th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Helmuth Plessner ranks 773 out of 1,267. Before him are William Paley, Zhang Zai, Hermarchus, Denis de Rougemont, Calcidius, and Lucien Goldmann. After him are Johannes Nikolaus Tetens, Kazimierz Twardowski, Hui Shi, Michel Henry, William Heard Kilpatrick, and Athenodorus Cananites.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Helmuth Plessner ranks 114. Before him are Branislaw Tarashkyevich, Reiner Stahel, Liu Bocheng, Nikolai Polikarpov, William Powell, and Alice Ball. After him are Harry Dexter White, Stanisław Maczek, Djuna Barnes, James M. Cain, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai, and Adolf Ziegler. Among people deceased in 1985, Helmuth Plessner ranks 84. Before him are Wolfgang Reitherman, Fred Uhlman, Afet İnan, Lovro von Matačić, Denis de Rougemont, and Evgeny Lifshitz. After him are Karl Menger, Theodore Sturgeon, Frank Oppenheimer, Anton Karas, Heinz Hoffmann, and Edmond O'Brien.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Helmuth Plessner ranks 2,525 out of 7,253. Before him are Heinrich Kiepert (1818), Johann Georg Wagler (1800), Paul Giesler (1895), Louis II, Grand Duke of Baden (1824), Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt (1831), and George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1779). After him are Prince Georg Friedrich of Waldeck (1620), Paul Kummer (1834), Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1636), Johannes Nikolaus Tetens (1736), Johann Caspar Kerll (1627), and Christoph Schneider (1966).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Helmuth Plessner ranks 98. Before him are Ludwig Klages (1872), F. C. S. Schiller (1864), Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792), Joseph Dietzgen (1828), Arnold Ruge (1802), and Theodor Lessing (1872). After him are Johannes Nikolaus Tetens (1736), Theodor Lipps (1851), Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg (1802), Friedrich Pollock (1894), Paul de Lagarde (1827), and Leo Löwenthal (1900).

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