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Karl Ludwig von Haller

1768 - 1854

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Karl Ludwig von Haller (1 August 1768 – 20 May 1854) was a Swiss jurist, statesman and political philosopher. He was the author of Restauration der Staatswissenschaft (Restoration of Political Science, 1816–1834), a book which gave its namesake to the Restoration period after the Congress of Vienna, and which Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel strongly criticized in §258 of Elements of the Philosophy of Right. Von Haller's work, which was burnt during the Wartburg Festival, was a highly systematic defense both of the principles of dynastic legitimacy and monarchy founded on territorial lordship, as well as of pre-modern republics like those of the Swiss city-states, and considered one of the most consistent rejection of modern political ideas of the social contract, public law, and state sovereignty. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Ludwig von Haller is the 1,088th most popular philosopher (down from 1,072nd in 2019), the 474th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 424th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Swiss Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Karl Ludwig von Haller ranks 1,088 out of 1,267. Before him are Helene von Druskowitz, Ivan Merz, Carlo Cattaneo, Luciano Floridi, Max Dessoir, and Georg Anton Friedrich Ast. After him are Julián Marías, Clémence Royer, Theodor Benfey, Cleopatra the Alchemist, John Scott Haldane, and Eugenio Garin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1768, Karl Ludwig von Haller ranks 40. Before him are Kaʻahumanu, Anthony Carlisle, Johann Michael Vogl, Marie-Jeanne de Lalande, William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, and Friedrich von Adelung. After him are Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein, Louise Caroline of Hochberg, Hendrik Voogd, Marie Friederike of Hesse-Kassel, Astley Cooper, and Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey. Among people deceased in 1854, Karl Ludwig von Haller ranks 54. Before him are Edward Forbes, Carl Joseph Begas, Friedrich Eduard Beneke, Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui, and William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford. After him are Angelo Mai, José Joaquín Prieto, Frederick Catherwood, Pedro María de Anaya, Prince Carl Oscar, Duke of Södermanland, and Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Karl Ludwig von Haller ranks 474 out of 1,015. Before him are Charles Antenen (1929), Konrad Stäheli (1931), Nicolas Bouvier (1929), Pierre Cérésole (1879), Robert Julius Trumpler (1886), and Johannes Baumann (1874). After him are Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (1664), Élisabeth Baume-Schneider (1963), Théodore Flournoy (1854), Yvonne Rüegg (1938), Bernard Fellay (1958), and Adolf Meyer (1866).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Switzerland

Among philosophers born in Switzerland, Karl Ludwig von Haller ranks 9. Before him are Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821), Emer de Vattel (1714), Frithjof Schuon (1907), Jean Vanier (1928), Denis de Rougemont (1906), and Tariq Ramadan (1962).

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