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Leo Baeck

1873 - 1956

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Leo Baeck (German pronunciation: [ˌleːo ˈbɛk] ; 23 May 1873 – 2 November 1956) was a 20th-century German rabbi, scholar, and theologian. He served as leader of Reform Judaism in his native country and internationally, and later represented all German Jews during the Nazi era. After the Second World War, he settled in London, in the United Kingdom, where he served as the chairman of the World Union for Progressive Judaism. In 1955, the Leo Baeck Institute for the study of the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry was established, and Baeck was its first international president. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leo Baeck is the 949th most popular philosopher (down from 931st in 2019), the 717th most popular biography from Poland (down from 700th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Polish Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Leo Baeck ranks 949 out of 1,267. Before him are Theodor Gomperz, Camillo Berneri, Élisabeth Badinter, Ogyū Sorai, Ibrahim al-Nazzam, and Lanza del Vasto. After him are Sarada Devi, Dirck Coornhert, Stanley Cavell, Bernard Stiegler, Keshub Chandra Sen, and Lars Gustafsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Leo Baeck ranks 110. Before him are Lady Ottoline Morrell, Emmanuel de Martonne, Charles Fox Parham, Cesare Orsenigo, Henri Rabaud, and Dámaso Berenguer. After him are Prosper Bruggeman, Ford Madox Ford, Edwin Flack, Mariano Azuela, John Geiger, and Leo Fall. Among people deceased in 1956, Leo Baeck ranks 117. Before him are Vladimir Obruchev, Jacques Moeschal, Walther Kossel, Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg, Mikhail Tereshchenko, and Zoltán Halmay. After him are Tommy Johnson, Aino Kallas, Corrado Alvaro, Ágnes Esterházy, John Geiger, and Touria Chaoui.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Leo Baeck ranks 717 out of 1,694. Before him are Miliza Korjus (1905), Aleksander Gierymski (1850), Wojciech Gerson (1831), Gustav Adolf von Götzen (1866), Samuel Eilenberg (1913), and Johann Gottlieb Georgi (1729). After him are Ernst Degner (1931), Salomėja Nėris (1904), Aleksander Kakowski (1862), Uwe Johnson (1934), Nathan Alterman (1910), and Karl Friedrich Lessing (1808).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Poland

Among philosophers born in Poland, Leo Baeck ranks 24. Before him are Kuno Fischer (1824), Franz Neumann (1900), Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928), Symon Budny (1530), Florian Znaniecki (1882), and Józef Maria Bocheński (1902). After him are Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907), Stanisław Staszic (1755), Jerzy Żuławski (1874), Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski (1503), Tadeusz Kotarbiński (1886), and Władysław Tatarkiewicz (1886).

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