PHILOSOPHER

Moses Hess

1812 - 1875

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Moses (Moritz) Hess (21 January 1812 – 6 April 1875) was a German-Jewish philosopher, early socialist and Zionist thinker. His theories led to disagreements with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. He is considered a pioneer of Labor Zionism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Moses Hess is the 434th most popular philosopher (down from 325th in 2019), the 1,108th most popular biography from Germany (down from 692nd in 2019) and the 51st most popular German Philosopher.

Moses Hess is most famous for being a socialist. He wrote a book called "Rome and Jerusalem" which was a socialist manifesto.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Moses Hess ranks 434 out of 1,267. Before him are Antiochus of Ascalon, Edward de Bono, Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Daniel Dennett, John of Salisbury, and Francisco Ferrer. After him are Thomas Cajetan, Gautama Maharishi, Peter Sloterdijk, Eudemus of Rhodes, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, and Rodolphus Agricola.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1812, Moses Hess ranks 13. Before him are Louise of Orléans, Truganini, Augustus Pugin, Maria Cristina of Savoy, Mirza Fatali Akhundov, and Amélie of Leuchtenberg. After him are Sigismond Thalberg, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Ascanio Sobrero, Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde, Alfred Krupp, and Robert Browning. Among people deceased in 1875, Moses Hess ranks 17. Before him are Isaac Singer, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Charles Wheatstone, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 12th Dalai Lama, and Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy. After him are Heinrich Schwabe, Amalia of Oldenburg, Pierre Larousse, Guillaume Henri Dufour, Duchenne de Boulogne, and Francis V, Duke of Modena.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Moses Hess ranks 1,108 out of 7,253. Before him are August Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1760), Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789), Gustav Ritter von Kahr (1862), Harald Schumacher (1954), Ernst Heinkel (1888), and Veit Stoss (1450). After him are Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670), Niko Kovač (1971), Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1709), Heinrich Schwabe (1789), Karl Mack von Leiberich (1752), and Rodolphe Seeldrayers (1876).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Moses Hess ranks 51. Before him are David Strauss (1808), Rudolf Otto (1869), Hermann Cohen (1842), Wilhelm Windelband (1848), Carl Gustav Hempel (1905), and Karl Rahner (1904). After him are Peter Sloterdijk (1947), Gershom Scholem (1897), Christian Thomasius (1655), Hans Reichenbach (1891), Henry Suso (1295), and Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach (1775).

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