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Hermann Cohen

1842 - 1918

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Hermann Cohen (; German: [ˈkoːən]; 4 July 1842 – 4 April 1918) was a German philosopher, one of the founders of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism, and he is often held to be "probably the most important Jewish philosopher of the nineteenth century". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Cohen is the 353rd most popular philosopher (down from 329th in 2019), the 832nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 711th in 2019) and the 47th most popular German Philosopher.

Hermann Cohen was a German philosopher who was most famous for his work on the philosophy of religion.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Hermann Cohen ranks 353 out of 1,267. Before him are Justus Lipsius, Antonio Negri, Crates of Thebes, Pompeia Plotina, Aristoxenus, and Robert Nozick. After him are Günther Anders, René Girard, Otto Neurath, Peter Singer, Abul A'la Maududi, and Nasir Khusraw.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Hermann Cohen ranks 16. Before him are Dominic Savio, Josef Breuer, Camille Flammarion, Paul Lafargue, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, and Arrigo Boito. After him are Osborne Reynolds, James Dewar, Vasily Vereshchagin, Georg Brandes, Sophus Lie, and Okita Sōji. Among people deceased in 1918, Hermann Cohen ranks 35. Before him are Lavr Kornilov, César Cui, Ferdinand Hodler, Edmond Rostand, Arrigo Boito, and Fanny Kaplan. After him are Lili Boulanger, Paul Vidal de La Blache, Paul von Rennenkampf, Aleksandr Lyapunov, Frank Wedekind, and Andrew Dickson White.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Cohen ranks 832 out of 7,253. Before him are Ferdinand von Lindemann (1852), Carl Spitzweg (1808), Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1750), Wilhelm Hauff (1802), Ludwig Quidde (1858), and Wolfgang Schäuble (1942). After him are Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (1946), Bernd Schuster (1959), Otto III, Duke of Bavaria (1261), Juana Bormann (1893), Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1729), and Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim (1905).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Hermann Cohen ranks 47. Before him are Rudolf Bultmann (1884), Bruno Bauer (1809), Moritz Schlick (1882), Hugh of Saint Victor (1096), David Strauss (1808), and Rudolf Otto (1869). After him are Wilhelm Windelband (1848), Carl Gustav Hempel (1905), Karl Rahner (1904), Moses Hess (1812), Peter Sloterdijk (1947), and Gershom Scholem (1897).

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