Hungarian-English sociologist and academic (born 1893)

Karl Mannheim

Karl Mannheim was a Hungarian sociologist and a key figure in classical sociology as well as one of the founders of the sociology of knowledge. Mannheim is best known for his book Ideology and Utopia (1929/1936), in which he distinguishes between partial and total ideologies, the latter representing comprehensive worldviews distinctive to particular social groups, and also between ideologies that provide support for existing social arrangements, and utopias, which look to the future and propose a transformation of society.

Born

1893

March 27

Died

1947

Era

1890s

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Karl, in brief

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1893 Born
1947 Died

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1309 Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized Ferrara, a papal fiefdom.
1329 Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
1625 Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.

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The world in 1947

When Karl departed

april 1 The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
april 15 Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
april 16 An explosion on board a freighter in port causes Texas City in the state of Texas, United States, to catch fire, killing almost 600 people.
april 16 Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.

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Andrei Kozyrev 1951– Belgian-Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia Edward Steichen 1879–1973 Luxembourgian-American photographer, painter, and curator (born 1879) George Giffen 1859–1927 Australian cricketer and footballer (died 1927) Georgios Katrougalos 1963– Greek jurist and politician Jakob Sverdrup 1845– Norwegian bishop and politician, Norwegian Minister of Education and Church Affairs (died 1899) John Sulston 1942– English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018) Kathleen Scott 1878–1947 English sculptor (born 1878) Kenta Kobashi 1967– Japanese professional wrestler Mstislav Rostropovich 1927–2007 Russian cellist and conductor (born 1927)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1893

Allen Dulles 1893–1969 American lawyer and diplomat, 5th Director of Central Intelligence (died 1969) Alois Hába 1893– Czech composer and educator (died 1973) Charles E. Burchfield 1893–1967 American painter (died 1967) Christopher Kelk Ingold 1893– British chemist (died 1970) Colin Fraser Barron 1893– Scottish-Canadian sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1958) H. Bonciu 1893– Romanian author, poet, and journalist (died 1950) Herbert Read 1893–1968 English poet and critic (died 1968) Huey Long 1893–1935 American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (died 1935) Joan Miró 1893–1983 Spanish painter and sculptor (died 1983)

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