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Victor Basch

1863 - 1944

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Basch Viktor Vilém, or Victor-Guillaume Basch (18 August 1863/1865, Budapest – 10 January 1944) was a French Jewish politician and professor of germanistics and philosophy at the Sorbonne descending from Hungary. He was engaged in the Zionist movement, in the Ligue des droits de l'homme (president from 1926 to 1944) and in Anti-Nazism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Victor Basch is the 1,195th most popular philosopher (down from 1,117th in 2019), the 694th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 515th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Hungarian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Victor Basch ranks 1,195 out of 1,267. Before him are Hicetas, Max Black, Dariush Shayegan, Philip Pettit, Alexander Berzin, and Walter Kaufmann. After him are William Alston, Marshall Berman, Robert Brandom, Bernard Lonergan, John Peckham, and James Burnham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Victor Basch ranks 160. Before him are William Henry Young, Corrado Segre, Outram Bangs, Dimitar Stanchov, Eduard David, and Léon Frapié. After him are Samuel P. Bush, Henri Padé, Frederic G. Kenyon, Johannes Weiss, Charles Le Goffic, and Lucina Hagman. Among people deceased in 1944, Victor Basch ranks 285. Before him are Kang Kyeong-ae, Hermann Hansen, Endre Steiner, Grigore Antipa, Frank Knox, and Stephen Leacock. After him are Michael Pedersen Friis, George Clausen, Emine Semiye Önasya, Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, Walter Middelberg, and Lev Shcherba.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Victor Basch ranks 694 out of 1,077. Before him are Olga Tass (1929), Rudolf Illovszky (1922), Géza Csapó (1950), Lőrinc Szabó (1900), Gábor Benedek (1927), and Hilda Gobbi (1913). After him are Sándor Kisfaludy (1772), Tibor Klampár (1953), Vilmos Varjú (1937), Cécile Tormay (1876), Károly Takács (1910), and Miklós Ambrus (1933).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Hungary

Among philosophers born in Hungary, Victor Basch ranks 9. Before him are Imre Lakatos (1922), Ágnes Heller (1929), Ervin László (1932), István Mészáros (1930), George Gerbner (1919), and Thomas Sebeok (1920). After him are Stanley Jaki (1924).

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