PHILOSOPHER

Ágnes Heller

1929 - 2019

Photo of Ágnes Heller

Icon of person Ágnes Heller

Ágnes Heller (12 May 1929 – 19 July 2019) was a Hungarian philosopher and lecturer. She was a core member of the Budapest School philosophical forum in the 1960s and later taught political theory for 25 years at the New School for Social Research in New York City. She lived, wrote and lectured in Budapest. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ágnes Heller is the 386th most popular philosopher (down from 376th in 2019), the 110th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 100th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Hungarian Philosopher.

Agnès Heller is a Hungarian-born German philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. She is most famous for her work on Marx, Hegel, and the history of philosophy.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Ágnes Heller by language

Loading...

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ágnes Heller ranks 386 out of 1,267Before her are Edgar Morin, Hwang Jini, Antoine Arnauld, Nicephorus Gregoras, Damascius, and Boetius of Dacia. After her are Philo of Larissa, Ban Zhao, Richard Avenarius, Guan Zhong, Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi, and Haji Bektash Veli.

Most Popular Philosophers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Ágnes Heller ranks 73Before her are Bernard Haitink, Yevgeny Primakov, E. O. Wilson, Omar Torrijos, Violeta Chamorro, and Jerry Goldsmith. After her are Lennart Johansson, Mike Hawthorn, Dick Clark, Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow, George Steiner, and Helmut Rahn. Among people deceased in 2019, Ágnes Heller ranks 54Before her are Sydney Brenner, Andrea Camilleri, Giya Kancheli, Roger Etchegaray, John Tate, and John Robert Schrieffer. After her are Lennart Johansson, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Godfried Danneels, Sigmund Jähn, Ferdinand Piëch, and Fernando de la Rúa.

Others Born in 1929

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 2019

Go to all Rankings

In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Ágnes Heller ranks 110 out of 1,077Before her are Pál Teleki (1879), Loránd Eötvös (1848), Peter Lax (1926), György Cziffra (1921), Stephen IV of Hungary (1133), and László Sólyom (1942). After her are Taksony of Hungary (931), Ján Kollár (1793), Emma Orczy (1865), Cornel Wilde (1912), Zoltán of Hungary (896), and Margaret Mahler (1897).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Hungary

Among philosophers born in Hungary, Ágnes Heller ranks 4Before her are Rudolf Steiner (1861), György Lukács (1885), and Imre Lakatos (1922). After her are Ervin László (1932), István Mészáros (1930), George Gerbner (1919), Thomas Sebeok (1920), Victor Basch (1863), and Stanley Jaki (1924).