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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 346,126 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Andre Gunder Frank is the 43rd most popular sociologist (down from 38th in 2019), the 2,588th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,167th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Sociologist.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Andre Gunder Frank ranks 43 out of 54Before him are Charles Tilly, David Riesman, Mark Granovetter, Juan José Linz, Howard S. Becker, and Shmuel Eisenstadt. After him are Seymour Martin Lipset, Marcel Granet, Basil Bernstein, Nils Christie, James Samuel Coleman, and Gøsta Esping-Andersen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Andre Gunder Frank ranks 178Before him are Camilo Torres Restrepo, Hal Ashby, Arnold Palmer, Gaston Glock, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, and James Hong. After him are Rafael Eitan, Nargis, Peter Yates, Aleksandra Pakhmutova, Benny Golson, and Gastone Moschin. Among people deceased in 2005, Andre Gunder Frank ranks 104Before him are Henry Taube, Teresa Wright, Vasco Gonçalves, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Kocheril R. Narayanan, and John Mills. After him are George P. Cosmatos, Ghena Dimitrova, Maurice Hilleman, Sangoulé Lamizana, Polina Astakhova, and Eddie Albert.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Andre Gunder Frank ranks 2,588 out of 6,142Before him are Bertha Krupp (1886), John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1627), August Heissmeyer (1897), Anni Albers (1899), Hans Graf von Sponeck (1888), and Princess Mathilde of Saxony (1863). After him are Walther Gerlach (1889), Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine (1843), Rudolf Peierls (1907), Ewald Hering (1834), Prince William of Baden (1829), and Martin Schwarzschild (1912).

Among SOCIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among sociologists born in Germany, Andre Gunder Frank ranks 8Before him are Theodor W. Adorno (1903), Georg Simmel (1858), Niklas Luhmann (1927), Robert Michels (1876), Amitai Etzioni (1929), and Juan José Linz (1926). After him are Lewis A. Coser (1913) and Claus Offe (1940).