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Joseph Dietzgen

1828 - 1888

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Peter Josef Dietzgen (December 9, 1828 – April 15, 1888) was a German socialist philosopher, Marxist, and journalist. Dietzgen was born in Blankenberg in the Rhine Province of Prussia. He was the first of five children of father Johann Gottfried Anno Dietzgen (1794–1887) and mother Anna Margaretha Lückerath (1808–1881). He was, like his father, a tanner by profession, inheriting his uncle's business in Siegburg. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Dietzgen is the 746th most popular philosopher (up from 839th in 2019), the 2,411th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,783rd in 2019) and the 95th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Joseph Dietzgen ranks 746 out of 1,267. Before him are Ahmad al-Tayyeb, Aleksey Khomyakov, Philip of Opus, Leo the Mathematician, Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov, and Alexius Meinong. After him are Jacob Moleschott, Arnold Ruge, Anathon Aall, Jean Wahl, Glaucon, and Amelius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1828, Joseph Dietzgen ranks 31. Before him are Iosif Gurko, Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, George Meredith, Dora d'Istria, Étienne Carjat, and Meyer Guggenheim. After him are Effie Gray, Charles Floquet, Antoinette de Mérode, Mór Than, Władysław Czartoryski, and Charles Foster. Among people deceased in 1888, Joseph Dietzgen ranks 38. Before him are Elizabeth Stride, Dora d'Istria, George Robert Waterhouse, Catherine Eddowes, Josif Pančić, and Vsevolod Garshin. After him are Matthew Arnold, Gustave Boulanger, Princess Marie Amelie of Baden, Eunice Newton Foote, Jean-Delphin Alard, and Eugène Marin Labiche.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joseph Dietzgen ranks 2,412 out of 7,253. Before him are John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern (1543), Guido Buchwald (1961), Franz Abt (1819), Jens Böhrnsen (1949), Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1528), and Joseph Weizenbaum (1923). After him are Otto Kuntze (1843), Rahel Varnhagen (1771), Rudolf Rocker (1873), Dorothea Erxleben (1715), Hannelore Kohl (1933), and Christoph, Duke of Württemberg (1515).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Joseph Dietzgen ranks 95. Before him are Johann Bernhard Basedow (1723), Rudolph Goclenius (1547), Karl Vogt (1817), Ludwig Klages (1872), F. C. S. Schiller (1864), and Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792). After him are Arnold Ruge (1802), Theodor Lessing (1872), Helmuth Plessner (1892), Johannes Nikolaus Tetens (1736), Theodor Lipps (1851), and Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg (1802).

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