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1893 – 1947Karl Mannheim (1893-1947)Died 9 January 1947, aged 53Karl Mannheim was a Hungarian-born sociologist and a founder of the sociology of knowledge. His best-known work is Ideology and Utopia. He taught at the London School of Economics after fleeing Nazi Germany.