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Niklas Luhmann

1927 - 1998

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Niklas Luhmann (; German: [ˈluːman]; December 8, 1927 – November 11, 1998) was a German sociologist, philosopher of social science, and systems theorist. Niklas Luhmann is one of the most influential German sociologists of the 20th century. His thinking was based on the philosophical tradition and at the same time the reception of a wide variety of concepts from modern science. From this foundation he developed a functionalist-oriented systems theory, which claims to be able to describe all social phenomena in a theoretically consistent language. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Niklas Luhmann is the 15th most popular sociologist (down from 14th in 2019), the 656th most popular biography from Germany (down from 515th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Sociologist.

Niklas Luhmann is most famous for his contributions to the study of social systems. He is often considered one of the most influential sociologists of the 20th century.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Niklas Luhmann ranks 15 out of 79. Before him are Talcott Parsons, Marcel Mauss, Norbert Elias, Ulrich Beck, Karl Mannheim, and Immanuel Wallerstein. After him are Gabriel Tarde, Manuel Castells, Seymour Martin Lipset, Pitirim Sorokin, Alain Touraine, and C. Wright Mills.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Niklas Luhmann ranks 39. Before him are Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Simone Veil, Gilbert Bécaud, Theodore Maiman, Lawrence Kohlberg, and Hubert de Givenchy. After him are Harry Belafonte, Emmanuelle Riva, Raúl Alfonsín, Harry Mulisch, Juliette Gréco, and Roy Cohn. Among people deceased in 1998, Niklas Luhmann ranks 18. Before him are Carlos Castaneda, Octavio Paz, Jean-François Lyotard, Yang Shangkun, Florence Griffith Joyner, and Derek Barton. After him are Conrad Schumann, Frederick Reines, Alan Shepard, Konstantinos Karamanlis, Tameo Ide, and Theodore Schultz.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Niklas Luhmann ranks 656 out of 7,253. Before him are Martin Niemöller (1892), Princess Viktoria of Prussia (1866), Erhard Milch (1892), George Grosz (1893), August Macke (1887), and Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland (1653). After him are Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942), Werner Forssmann (1904), Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1811), Conrad Schumann (1942), August Horch (1868), and Rudolf Bultmann (1884).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among sociologists born in Germany, Niklas Luhmann ranks 4. Before him are Max Weber (1864), Theodor W. Adorno (1903), and Georg Simmel (1858). After him are Robert Michels (1876), Juan José Linz (1926), Andre Gunder Frank (1929), Amitai Etzioni (1929), Lewis A. Coser (1913), Claus Offe (1940), and Louis Wirth (1897).

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