1866 - 1929
Aby Moritz Warburg, better known as Aby Warburg, (June 13, 1866 – October 26, 1929) was a German art historian and cultural theorist who founded the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek 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 278,148 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Aby Warburg is the 41st most popular historian (up from 45th in 2019), the 505th most popular biography from Germany (up from 541st in 2019) and the 6th 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, Aby Warburg ranks 41 out of 339. Before him are William of Tyre, Ibn Ishaq, Erwin Panofsky, Leonardo Bruni, Lucien Febvre, and Samuel von Pufendorf. After him are Ernst Gombrich, Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani, Ali ibn al-Athir, Niketas Choniates, Jared Diamond, and François Guizot.
1130 - 1186
HPI: 67.64
Rank: 35
704 - 767
HPI: 67.05
Rank: 36
1892 - 1968
HPI: 67.01
Rank: 37
1370 - 1444
HPI: 66.44
Rank: 38
1878 - 1956
HPI: 66.31
Rank: 39
1632 - 1694
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 40
1866 - 1929
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 41
1909 - 2001
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 42
1372 - 1449
HPI: 65.50
Rank: 43
1160 - 1233
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 44
1155 - 1217
HPI: 65.33
Rank: 45
1937 - Present
HPI: 65.30
Rank: 46
1787 - 1874
HPI: 65.11
Rank: 47
Among people born in 1866, Aby Warburg ranks 11. Before him are H. G. Wells, Thomas Hunt Morgan, George Gurdjieff, Alfred Werner, Benedetto Croce, and Beatrix Potter. After him are Giovanni Agnelli, Hans von Seeckt, Ferruccio Busoni, Aleksandr Ulyanov, Jacinto Benavente, and Anne Sullivan. Among people deceased in 1929, Aby Warburg ranks 13. Before him are Emile Berliner, Sergei Diaghilev, Wilhelm Maybach, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Prince Maximilian of Baden, and Thorstein Veblen. After him are Habibullāh Kalakāni, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Otto Liman von Sanders, Émile Loubet, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, and Maria Christina of Austria.
1866 - 1946
HPI: 74.42
Rank: 5
1866 - 1945
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 6
1866 - 1949
HPI: 72.81
Rank: 7
1866 - 1919
HPI: 70.70
Rank: 8
1866 - 1952
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 9
1866 - 1943
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 10
1866 - 1929
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 11
1866 - 1945
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 12
1866 - 1936
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 13
1866 - 1924
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 14
1866 - 1887
HPI: 64.39
Rank: 15
1866 - 1954
HPI: 63.77
Rank: 16
1866 - 1936
HPI: 63.73
Rank: 17
1851 - 1929
HPI: 66.44
Rank: 7
1872 - 1929
HPI: 66.34
Rank: 8
1846 - 1929
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 9
1874 - 1929
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 10
1867 - 1929
HPI: 65.98
Rank: 11
1857 - 1929
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 12
1866 - 1929
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 13
1890 - 1929
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 14
1865 - 1929
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 15
1855 - 1929
HPI: 64.55
Rank: 16
1838 - 1929
HPI: 63.95
Rank: 17
1856 - 1929
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 18
1858 - 1929
HPI: 63.37
Rank: 19
Among people born in Germany, Aby Warburg ranks 505 out of 6,142. Before him are Werner von Fritsch (1880), Julia Drusilla (16), Patrick Süskind (1949), Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884), August Weismann (1834), and Friedrich List (1789). After him are Kurt Student (1890), Erich Kästner (1899), Otto Carius (1922), Hans Adolf Krebs (1900), Otto Diels (1876), and John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1503).
1880 - 1939
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 499
16 - 38
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 500
1949 - Present
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 501
1884 - 1951
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 502
1834 - 1914
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 503
1789 - 1846
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 504
1866 - 1929
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 505
1890 - 1978
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 506
1899 - 1974
HPI: 65.83
Rank: 507
1922 - 2015
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 508
1900 - 1981
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 509
1876 - 1954
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 510
1503 - 1554
HPI: 65.80
Rank: 511
Among historians born in Germany, Aby Warburg ranks 6. Before him are Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717), Leopold von Ranke (1795), Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779), Erwin Panofsky (1892), and Samuel von Pufendorf (1632). After him are Adam of Bremen (null), Erich Auerbach (1892), Julius Wellhausen (1844), Hieronymus Wolf (1516), Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (1876), and Hermann Alexander Diels (1848).
1717 - 1768
HPI: 71.11
Rank: 1
1795 - 1886
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 2
1779 - 1861
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 3
1892 - 1968
HPI: 67.01
Rank: 4
1632 - 1694
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 5
1866 - 1929
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 6
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 7
1892 - 1957
HPI: 61.19
Rank: 8
1844 - 1918
HPI: 60.55
Rank: 9
1516 - 1580
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 10
1876 - 1925
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 11
1848 - 1922
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 12