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Aby Warburg

1866 - 1929

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Aby Moritz Warburg (June 13, 1866 – October 26, 1929) was a German art historian and cultural theorist who founded the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg (Warburg Library for Cultural Studies), a private library, which was later moved to the Warburg Institute, London. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aby Warburg has received more than 300,654 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Aby Warburg is the 48th most popular historian (down from 41st in 2019), the 543rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 505th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Historian.

Abraham Warburg is most famous for his work on the history of art. He was a German art historian and a member of the Warburg family.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Aby Warburg ranks 48 out of 561. Before him are Samuel von Pufendorf, Erwin Panofsky, Euhemerus, François Guizot, Leonardo Bruni, and Niketas Choniates. After him are Henri Pirenne, Ernst Gombrich, Joseph Justus Scaliger, Socrates of Constantinople, Jared Diamond, and Johann Gustav Droysen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Aby Warburg ranks 12. Before him are H. G. Wells, Antoine Meillet, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Alfred Werner, Benedetto Croce, and Giovanni Agnelli. After him are Hans von Seeckt, Aleksandr Ulyanov, Charles Nicolle, Ferruccio Busoni, Jacinto Benavente, and Beatrix Potter. Among people deceased in 1929, Aby Warburg ranks 12. Before him are Herman Hollerith, Bernhard von Bülow, Prince Maximilian of Baden, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Emile Berliner, and Sergei Diaghilev. After him are Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Otto Liman von Sanders, Émile Loubet, Thorstein Veblen, Maria Christina of Austria, and Mercédès Jellinek.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Aby Warburg ranks 543 out of 7,253. Before him are Hugh of Saint Victor (1096), Jochen Rindt (1942), Adolf Galland (1912), Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774), Rudi Völler (1960), and Philipp Scheidemann (1865). After him are Wilhelm List (1880), Wilhelm Marx (1863), Louis II, Prince of Monaco (1870), Kurt Student (1890), Willi Stoph (1914), and Robert Ritter von Greim (1892).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Aby Warburg ranks 7. Before him are Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717), Leopold von Ranke (1795), Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779), Adam of Bremen (1100), Samuel von Pufendorf (1632), and Erwin Panofsky (1892). After him are Julius Wellhausen (1844), Erich Auerbach (1892), Hermann Alexander Diels (1848), Christoph Cellarius (1638), Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (1876), and Reinhart Koselleck (1923).

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