SOCIOLOGIST

Andre Gunder Frank

1929 - 2005

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Andre Gunder Frank (February 24, 1929 – April 25, 2005) was a German-American sociologist and economic historian who promoted dependency theory after 1970 and world-systems theory after 1984. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andre Gunder Frank has received more than 366,641 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Andre Gunder Frank is the 35th most popular sociologist (up from 43rd in 2019), the 2,167th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,585th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Sociologist.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Andre Gunder Frank ranks 35 out of 79. Before him are Howard S. Becker, Stuart Hall, Ludwig Gumplowicz, Georges Gurvitch, Harold Garfinkel, and W. I. Thomas. After him are Herbert Blumer, Amitai Etzioni, Charles Tilly, Mark Granovetter, David Riesman, and Seymour Martin Lipset.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Andre Gunder Frank ranks 151. Before him are Christos Sartzetakis, Alain Tanner, Zillur Rahman, Roger Byrne, P. Ramlee, and Katherine Helmond. After him are John C. Bogle, Lennart Skoglund, Luis García Meza, Aleksandar Petrović, Walter Brandmüller, and Ed Asner. Among people deceased in 2005, Andre Gunder Frank ranks 82. Before him are Vincent Schiavelli, Augusto Roa Bastos, Cicely Saunders, Annette Stroyberg, Urie Bronfenbrenner, and Álvaro Cunhal. After him are Alberto Lattuada, Alexander Yakovlev, Ed McBain, Amrita Pritam, Jef Raskin, and Julio César Turbay Ayala.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Andre Gunder Frank ranks 2,167 out of 7,253. Before him are Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (1852), Martin Sandberger (1911), Johann Crüger (1598), Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia (1767), Princess Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1661), and Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730). After him are Andreas Möller (1967), Heinrich Eberbach (1895), Carl Zuckmayer (1896), Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (1773), Johannes Heinrich Schultz (1884), and Hannelore Kohl (1933).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among sociologists born in Germany, Andre Gunder Frank ranks 6. Before him are Max Weber (1864), Theodor W. Adorno (1903), Georg Simmel (1858), Niklas Luhmann (1927), and Robert Michels (1876). After him are Amitai Etzioni (1929), Juan José Linz (1926), Lewis A. Coser (1913), Claus Offe (1940), and Louis Wirth (1897).

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