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Ralf Dahrendorf

1929 - 2009

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Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, (German pronunciation: [ˈʁalf ˈɡʊstaf ˈdaːʁəndɔʁf]; 1 May 1929 – 17 June 2009) was a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and liberal politician. A class conflict theorist, Dahrendorf was a leading expert on explaining and analysing class divisions in modern society. Dahrendorf wrote multiple articles and books, his most notable being Class and Conflict in Industrial Society (1959) and Essays in the Theory of Society (1968). During his political career, he was a Member of the German Parliament, Parliamentary Secretary of State at the Foreign Office of Germany, European Commissioner for Trade, European Commissioner for Research, Science and Education and Member of the British House of Lords, after he was created a life peer in 1993. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ralf Dahrendorf is the 12th most popular political scientist (down from 9th in 2019), the 1,083rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 769th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Political Scientist.

Ralf Dahrendorf is most famous for his work in the sociology of knowledge, and his book "Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society."

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS

Among political scientists, Ralf Dahrendorf ranks 12 out of 46. Before him are Hans Morgenthau, Aleksandr Dugin, Benedict Anderson, Georg Jellinek, Johan Galtung, and Harold Lasswell. After him are Joseph Nye, Leonard Hobhouse, Maurice Duverger, John Mearsheimer, David Easton, and Gene Sharp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Ralf Dahrendorf ranks 90. Before him are Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Stirling Moss, Yozo Aoki, Michael Michai Kitbunchu, Francis Gary Powers, and Osamu Yamaji. After him are Claes Oldenburg, George Stinney, Len Deighton, John Polanyi, Gordon Moore, and Sam Nujoma. Among people deceased in 2009, Ralf Dahrendorf ranks 42. Before him are Jennifer Jones, John Updike, Gaafar Nimeiry, Leszek Kołakowski, Norman Borlaug, and Natasha Richardson. After him are Tavo Burat, Ephraim Katzir, Günther Rall, Edwin G. Krebs, Juan Almeida Bosque, and Marek Edelman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ralf Dahrendorf ranks 1,083 out of 7,253. Before him are Uli Hoeneß (1952), Marian Gold (1954), Franz Ziereis (1905), W. G. Sebald (1944), Franz, Duke of Bavaria (1933), and Georg Baselitz (1938). After him are Peter Minuit (1589), Oskar Schlemmer (1888), Killing of Peter Fechter (1944), Karin Schubert (1944), William V, Duke of Bavaria (1548), and Hannah Pick-Goslar (1928).

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS In Germany

Among political scientists born in Germany, Ralf Dahrendorf ranks 3. Before him are Hans Morgenthau (1904), and Georg Jellinek (1851). After him are Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut (1772), and Carl Joachim Friedrich (1901).

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