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Arno Peters

1916 - 2002

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Arno Peters (22 May 1916 – 2 December 2002) was a German historian who developed the Peters world map, based on the Gall–Peters projection. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arno Peters has received more than 76,804 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Arno Peters is the 253rd most popular historian (down from 177th in 2019), the 3,293rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,557th in 2019) and the 30th most popular German Historian.

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  • 52.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Arno Peters ranks 253 out of 561. Before him are Yahya of Antioch, Quentin Skinner, Fritz Fischer, Festus, İlber Ortaylı, and Mahmoud Mohammed Taha. After him are Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Ibn Hayyan, Charles Rollin, Joseph de Guignes, Charles Barbier de Meynard, and Charles Forbes René de Montalembert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Arno Peters ranks 134. Before him are Morris West, Halil İnalcık, Ingrid Vang Nyman, Gino Bianco, Benjamin Libet, and Maurice Bavaud. After him are Dorothy McGuire, Iosif Shklovsky, Jackie Gleason, Movita Castaneda, Rossano Brazzi, and Charlie Christian. Among people deceased in 2002, Arno Peters ranks 142. Before him are Ibn al-Khattab, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Ted Williams, B. D. Jatti, Ramón Grosso, and Vitaly Solomin. After him are Jean-Paul Riopelle, Masakatsu Miyamoto, Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Héctor Trujillo, Eugene Odum, and Anatoli Bashashkin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Arno Peters ranks 3,293 out of 7,253. Before him are Janosch (1931), Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1891), Carl Schurz (1829), Paul Kummer (1834), Ludwig Renn (1889), and Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt (1669). After him are Kurt Jooss (1901), Karl Groos (1861), Edgar Hilsenrath (1926), Yaakov Litzman (1948), Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1672), and George Frederick, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1573).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Arno Peters ranks 30. Before him are Karl Lamprecht (1856), Friedrich Meinecke (1862), Moritz Cantor (1829), Johannes Aventinus (1477), Gerardus Vossius (1577), and Fritz Fischer (1908). After him are Abraham Geiger (1810), Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729), Max Jakob Friedländer (1867), Philipp Spitta (1841), Ludwig von Pastor (1854), and Ubbo Emmius (1547).

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