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Heymann Steinthal

1823 - 1899

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Heymann, Hermann or Chajim Steinthal (16 May 1823 – 14 March 1899) was a German philologist and philosopher. He studied philology and philosophy at the University of Berlin, and was in 1850 appointed Privatdozent of philology and mythology at that institution. He was influenced by Wilhelm von Humboldt, whose Sprachwissenschaftliche Werke he edited in 1884. From 1852 to 1855 Steinthal resided in Paris, where he devoted himself to the study of Chinese, and in 1863 he was appointed assistant professor at the Berlin University; from 1872 he was also privat-dozent in critical history of the Old Testament and in religious philosophy at the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Heymann Steinthal is the 1,053rd most popular philosopher (up from 1,076th in 2019), the 4,090th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,179th in 2019) and the 132nd most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Heymann Steinthal ranks 1,053 out of 1,267. Before him are David of Dinant, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, Joseph Raz, Mary Whiton Calkins, Carl Dahlhaus, and Johann Eduard Erdmann. After him are Idomeneus of Lampsacus, J. L. Mackie, Susan George, Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi, Alois Riehl, and Harald Høffding.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Heymann Steinthal ranks 58. Before him are Jules Émile Planchon, Mary Surratt, Gustav Adolf, Cardinal Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Lascăr Catargiu, and Ivan Aksakov. After him are Karl Schenk, Ahmed Vefik Pasha, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Simon Bolivar Buckner, Eduard Oscar Schmidt, and Oscar Dickson. Among people deceased in 1899, Heymann Steinthal ranks 59. Before him are Gaston Tissandier, Lascăr Catargiu, Jacob Maris, Emil Welti, Ulises Heureaux, and Count Karl Sigmund von Hohenwart. After him are Constant Fornerod, Robert G. Ingersoll, Adile Sultan, Max Lange, Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa, and Antonio Luna.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heymann Steinthal ranks 4,092 out of 7,253. Before him are Emmy Hennings (1885), Theodor von Heuglin (1824), Duke Georg August of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1824), Albrecht Haushofer (1903), Albert Bernhard Frank (1839), and Caspar Olevian (1536). After him are Michael Stich (1968), David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl (1628), Johann Schreck (1576), Herbert Norkus (1916), Herluf Bidstrup (1912), and Kurt Aland (1915).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Heymann Steinthal ranks 132. Before him are Gabriel Biel (1418), Joachim Camerarius (1500), Friedrich Paulsen (1846), Justus Möser (1720), Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster (1869), and Carl Dahlhaus (1928). After him are Friedrich Eduard Beneke (1798), Robert Spaemann (1927), Martin Chemnitz (1522), Immanuel Hermann Fichte (1796), Max Dessoir (1867), and Georg Anton Friedrich Ast (1778).

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