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Benjamin Mazar

1906 - 1995

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Benjamin Mazar (Hebrew: בנימין מזר; born Binyamin Zeev Maisler, June 28, 1906 – September 9, 1995) was a pioneering Israeli historian, recognized as the "dean" of biblical archaeologists. He shared the national passion for the archaeology of Israel that also attracts considerable international interest due to the region's biblical links. He is known for his excavations at the most significant biblical site in Israel: south and south west of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Mazar has received more than 61,126 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Benjamin Mazar is the 467th most popular historian (down from 395th in 2019), the 1,071st most popular biography from Poland (down from 983rd in 2019) and the 17th most popular Polish Historian.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Benjamin Mazar ranks 467 out of 561. Before him are Ji Xianlin, Lidiya Ponomarenko, William Robertson, Arthur Smith Woodward, Hermann Oldenberg, and Charles A. Beard. After him are Djibril Tamsir Niane, Zhao Rukuo, Timofey Granovsky, Charles Homer Haskins, Nikolaus Pevsner, and Rudolph Rummel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Benjamin Mazar ranks 318. Before him are Grigore Moisil, Casimiro Torres, Augustin Chantrel, Abdus Sattar, Carl-Erik Holmberg, and Plácido Galindo. After him are Jean Delarge, Harry Hopman, Nils Skoglund, Richard Rado, Richard Llewellyn, and Jorge Icaza Coronel. Among people deceased in 1995, Benjamin Mazar ranks 255. Before him are Prawitz Öberg, Erich Hof, Warren E. Burger, Karl Warner, Aldo Gordini, and Maurinho. After him are Robertson Davies, Genrikh Kasparyan, Fischer Black, Giorgio Bocchino, Sony Lab'ou Tansi, and George Stibitz.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Benjamin Mazar ranks 1,071 out of 1,694. Before him are Marie Juchacz (1879), Sergey Lebedev (1874), Kazimierz Kutz (1929), Juliusz Machulski (1955), Leopold Skulski (1877), and Beata Poźniak (1960). After him are Wacław Potocki (1621), Lucyna Winnicka (1928), Zbigniew Zamachowski (1961), Jadwiga Barańska (1935), Grzegorz Schetyna (1963), and Jan Twardowski (1915).

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Among HISTORIANS In Poland

Among historians born in Poland, Benjamin Mazar ranks 17. Before him are Heinrich Graetz (1817), Israel Gutman (1923), Jacob Talmon (1916), Fritz Stern (1926), Jan T. Gross (1947), and Franz Theodor Kugler (1808). After him are Albrecht Weber (1825), and Janusz Kurtyka (1960).

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