PHILOSOPHER

Karl Groos

1861 - 1946

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Karl Groos (10 December 1861, in Heidelberg – 27 March 1946, in Tübingen) was a German philosopher and psychologist who proposed an evolutionary instrumentalist theory of play. His 1898 book on The Play of Animals suggested that play is a preparation for later life. Groos was full Professor of philosophy in Gießen, Basel and 1911–1929 in Tübingen. His main idea was that play is basically useful, and so it can be explained by the normal process of evolution by natural selection. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Groos is the 1,011th most popular philosopher (down from 926th in 2019), the 3,830th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,295th in 2019) and the 124th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Karl Groos ranks 1,011 out of 1,267. Before him are Thomas Arnold, Richard Swinburne, Critolaus, Zhang Binglin, Gregory of Tatev, and Anna Kingsford. After him are Hermann Usener, Samuel Clarke, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Stanisław Staszic, Achille Mbembe, and Jerzy Żuławski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Karl Groos ranks 96. Before him are Katō Tomosaburō, József Rippl-Rónai, Carl Moll, Émile Grumiaux, Fanny Brate, and Ernest Renshaw. After him are Nikola Ivanov, Prafulla Chandra Ray, Kadambini Ganguly, Helen Herron Taft, Dorothea Klumpke, and Krikor Zohrab. Among people deceased in 1946, Karl Groos ranks 139. Before him are Maximilian Steinberg, Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, Sándor Simonyi-Semadam, Léon Gaumont, Gerda Steinhoff, and Danuta Siedzikówna. After him are Gualberto Villarroel, Victor Loret, Alfred Stock, W. C. Fields, Ada Adler, and Aleksandr Bogomolets.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Groos ranks 3,832 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1863), Martin Ohm (1792), Georg Sauerwein (1831), Günther Schwägermann (1915), Hans Hofmann (1880), and Dorothea Köring (1880). After him are Gunter d'Alquen (1910), Jonas Kaufmann (1969), Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (1752), Otto von Emmich (1848), Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve (1638), and Reinhard Libuda (1943).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Karl Groos ranks 124. Before him are Erich Neumann (1905), Johannes Agricola (1494), Rüdiger Safranski (1945), Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917), Theodoric of Freiberg (1250), and Paul Deussen (1845). After him are Hermann Usener (1834), Gabriel Biel (1418), Joachim Camerarius (1500), Friedrich Paulsen (1846), Justus Möser (1720), and Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster (1869).

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