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Hermann Lotze

1817 - 1881

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Rudolf Hermann Lotze (; German: [ˈlɔtsə]; 21 May 1817 – 1 July 1881) was a German philosopher and logician. He also had a medical degree and was well versed in biology. He argued that if the physical world is governed by mechanical laws and relations, then developments in the universe could be explained as the functioning of a world mind. His medical studies were pioneering works in scientific psychology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Lotze is the 499th most popular philosopher (down from 497th in 2019), the 1,327th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,325th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Hermann Lotze ranks 499 out of 1,267. Before him are Petrus Ramus, Emmanuel Mounier, Hasdai Crescas, Kapila, Ivan Ilyin, and Norberto Bobbio. After him are Johannes Althusius, Jean-Luc Nancy, George Pachymeres, Homi K. Bhabha, Victor Cousin, and Adam Ferguson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Hermann Lotze ranks 18. Before him are Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Niels Gade, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Princess Clémentine of Orléans, and Theodor Storm. After him are Pierre Larousse, Austen Henry Layard, Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg, Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, and Albert von Kölliker. Among people deceased in 1881, Hermann Lotze ranks 20. Before him are Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg, Nikolai Rubinstein, Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Empress Dowager Ci'an, Nikolay Pirogov, and Theobald Boehm. After him are George W. De Long, Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis, Eduard Heine, Maria Domenica Mazzarello, Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, and Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Lotze ranks 1,327 out of 7,253. Before him are Fidelis of Sigmaringen (1577), Theodor Storm (1817), Theobald Boehm (1794), Barbara Blomberg (1527), Gert Fröbe (1913), and Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810). After him are Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (1833), Nena (1960), Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden (1704), Wilhelm Busch (1832), Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (1511), and Guillaume Henri Dufour (1787).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Hermann Lotze ranks 62. Before him are Henry Suso (1295), Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach (1775), Franz Rosenzweig (1886), Paul Natorp (1854), Leo Strauss (1899), and Ernst Troeltsch (1865). After him are Johannes Althusius (1563), Axel Honneth (1949), Karl Löwith (1897), Ludwig Büchner (1824), Karl-Otto Apel (1922), and Carl Stumpf (1848).

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