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Rudolf Steiner

1861 - 1925

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Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (German: [ˈʃtaɪnɐ]; 27 or 25 February 1861 – 30 March 1925) was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy. His teachings are influenced by Christian Gnosticism or neognosticism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolf Steiner is the 78th most popular philosopher (down from 73rd in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 7th in 2019) and the most popular Hungarian Philosopher.

Rudolf Steiner is most famous for his philosophy of anthroposophy. He was a philosopher, architect, and social reformer.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Rudolf Steiner ranks 78 out of 1,267. Before him are Pliny the Elder, Peter Abelard, Leucippus, Edmund Husserl, Al-Kindi, and Nicholas of Cusa. After him are Gregory of Nazianzus, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Karl Jaspers, Roland Barthes, Herbert Spencer, and Ludwig Feuerbach.

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Among people born in 1861, Rudolf Steiner ranks 4. Before him are Rabindranath Tagore, Mehmed VI, and Fridtjof Nansen. After him are Charles Édouard Guillaume, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Georges Méliès, Edith Roosevelt, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Victor Horta, Georgy Lvov, and Erich von Falkenhayn. Among people deceased in 1925, Rudolf Steiner ranks 2. Before him is Sun Yat-sen. After him are Erik Satie, Friedrich Ebert, Gottlob Frege, Alexandra of Denmark, Maria Sophie of Bavaria, William Jennings Bryan, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Georgy Lvov, Johann Palisa, and Sergei Yesenin.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Rudolf Steiner ranks 8 out of 1,077. Before him are Martin of Tours (316), George Soros (1930), Gaiseric (389), Theodor Herzl (1860), Elizabeth Báthory (1560), and Louis II of Hungary (1506). After him are Stephen I of Hungary (975), John von Neumann (1903), Ignaz Semmelweis (1818), Matthias Corvinus (1443), Miklós Horthy (1868), and Harry Houdini (1874).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Hungary

Among philosophers born in Hungary, Rudolf Steiner ranks 1. After him are György Lukács (1885), Imre Lakatos (1922), Ágnes Heller (1929), Ervin László (1932), István Mészáros (1930), George Gerbner (1919), Thomas Sebeok (1920), Victor Basch (1863), and Stanley Jaki (1924).

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