PHILOSOPHER

Rudolf Christoph Eucken

1846 - 1926

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Rudolf Christoph Eucken (; German: [ˈʁuːdɔlf ˈɔʏkn̩] ; 5 January 1846 – 14 September 1926) was a German philosopher. He received the 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of thought, his wide range of vision, and the warmth and strength in presentation with which in his numerous works he has vindicated and developed an idealistic philosophy of life", after he had been nominated by a member of the Swedish Academy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolf Christoph Eucken is the 88th most popular philosopher (up from 109th in 2019), the 119th most popular biography from Germany (up from 145th in 2019) and the 11th most popular German Philosopher.

Rudolf Christoph Eucken was a German philosopher and economist who is most famous for his work in philosophy of religion, ethics, and aesthetics. He is also known for his work on the development of the social market economy.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Rudolf Christoph Eucken ranks 88 out of 1,267. Before him are Roland Barthes, Herbert Spencer, Ludwig Feuerbach, Theophrastus, Porphyry, and Athanasius of Alexandria. After him are Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Jürgen Habermas, Mencius, Johann Gottfried Herder, John of Damascus, and Aristippus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Rudolf Christoph Eucken ranks 1. After him are Henryk Sienkiewicz, Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, Peter Carl Fabergé, Wilhelm Maybach, Buffalo Bill, Comte de Lautréamont, George Westinghouse, Edmondo De Amicis, Wladimir Köppen, Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, and Prince Leopold of Bavaria. Among people deceased in 1926, Rudolf Christoph Eucken ranks 5. Before him are Claude Monet, Antoni Gaudí, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Mehmed VI. After him are Emperor Taishō, Harry Houdini, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Olga Constantinovna of Russia, Camillo Golgi, and Sunjong of Korea.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rudolf Christoph Eucken ranks 119 out of 7,253. Before him are Gottlieb Daimler (1834), William the Silent (1533), Ernst Haeckel (1834), Nikolaus Otto (1832), Albert Speer (1905), and Heinrich Schliemann (1822). After him are Claus von Stauffenberg (1907), Philip Melanchthon (1497), Arminius (-17), Frederick William III of Prussia (1770), Erich Honecker (1912), and Princess Sophie of Bavaria (1805).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Rudolf Christoph Eucken ranks 11. Before him are Hannah Arendt (1906), Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762), Nicholas of Cusa (1401), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775), Karl Jaspers (1883), and Ludwig Feuerbach (1804). After him are Jürgen Habermas (1929), Carl von Clausewitz (1780), Walter Benjamin (1892), Friedrich Fröbel (1782), Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767), and Meister Eckhart (1260).

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