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Moritz Schlick

1882 - 1936

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Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick (; German: [ʃlɪk] ; 14 April 1882 – 22 June 1936) was a German philosopher, physicist, and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle. He was murdered by a former student, Johann Nelböck, in 1936. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Moritz Schlick is the 319th most popular philosopher (up from 323rd in 2019), the 726th most popular biography from Germany (down from 689th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular German Philosopher.

Moritz Schlick is most famous for his work in the philosophy of science. He was a professor at the University of Vienna and was killed by a Nazi sympathizer in 1936.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Moritz Schlick ranks 319 out of 1,267. Before him are Félix Guattari, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Alfred Schütz, Abu Yusuf, Mazdak, and Pietro Pomponazzi. After him are Vyasa, Ari Thorgilsson, Hipparchia of Maroneia, Aenesidemus, Gennadius Scholarius, and Cleobulus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Moritz Schlick ranks 45. Before him are Charles Ponzi, Robert H. Goddard, Karol Szymanowski, Jacques Maritain, Hugh Dowding, and A. A. Milne. After him are Nicolai Hartmann, Lluís Companys, Otto Neurath, Yanka Kupala, Boris Shaposhnikov, and Izz ad-Din al-Qassam. Among people deceased in 1936, Moritz Schlick ranks 31. Before him are Hans von Seeckt, Elsa Einstein, Karl Kraus, Premchand, Buenaventura Durruti, and Andrija Mohorovičić. After him are Antoine Meillet, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, Georg Michaelis, Anne Sullivan, Nikolai Ostrovsky, and Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Moritz Schlick ranks 726 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Georg Faust (1480), Nina Hagen (1955), Werner Sombart (1863), Hermann von Salza (1170), Henry Morgenthau Sr. (1856), and Louis Spohr (1784). After him are Hasso von Manteuffel (1897), Erich Koch (1896), Bettina Heinen-Ayech (1937), Rudolf Schenker (1948), Ludwig Stumpfegger (1910), and Johann Deisenhofer (1943).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Moritz Schlick ranks 43. Before him are Adam Weishaupt (1748), Johann Reuchlin (1455), Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann (1842), Hans Jonas (1903), Rudolf Bultmann (1884), and Bruno Bauer (1809). After him are Hugh of Saint Victor (1096), David Strauss (1808), Rudolf Otto (1869), Hermann Cohen (1842), Wilhelm Windelband (1848), and Carl Gustav Hempel (1905).

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