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Carl Schurz

1829 - 1906

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Carl Schurz (German: [ʃʊɐ̯ts]; March 2, 1829 – May 14, 1906) was a German-American revolutionary and an American statesman, journalist, and reformer. He migrated to the United States after the German revolutions of 1848–1849 and became a prominent member of the new Republican Party. After serving as a Union general in the American Civil War, he helped found the short-lived Liberal Republican Party and became a prominent advocate of civil service reform. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Schurz has received more than 697,378 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Carl Schurz is the 11,024th most popular politician (up from 11,129th in 2019), the 3,289th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,291st in 2019) and the 942nd most popular German Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Carl Schurz ranks 11,024 out of 19,576. Before him are Abdelaziz Djerad, Lucius Cassius Longinus, Shavarsh Karapetyan, Blaže Koneski, Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, and Pinhas Lavon. After him are Paul Kummer, Frederick Chiluba, Amenirdis I, Elisabeth of Nuremberg, Beatrice of England, and Fernand Bouisson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1829, Carl Schurz ranks 40. Before him are Konrad Duden, Jean-Jacques Henner, Moritz Cantor, Ignacio Zaragoza, Laura Bridgman, and Graziadio Isaia Ascoli. After him are José de Alencar, Mikayel Nalbandian, Prince William of Baden, Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg, Antonio Guzmán Blanco, and Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure. Among people deceased in 1906, Carl Schurz ranks 41. Before him are Jean Lorrain, Jean Cabanis, Carlos Pellegrini, Princess Mathilde of Bavaria, Alfred Stevens, and Étienne Carjat. After him are Kosta Khetagurov, Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, Martin Wegelius, Harry Nelson Pillsbury, Ferdinand Brunetière, and Georges Rayet.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Schurz ranks 3,289 out of 7,253. Before him are Maximilian Fretter-Pico (1892), Henricus Martellus Germanus (1401), Paul Fleming (1609), Rudi Gutendorf (1926), Janosch (1931), and Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1891). After him are Paul Kummer (1834), Ludwig Renn (1889), Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt (1669), Arno Peters (1916), Kurt Jooss (1901), and Karl Groos (1861).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Carl Schurz ranks 942. Before him are Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg (1547), Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern (1868), Margaret of Thuringia (1449), Reiner Klimke (1936), Richard Hildebrandt (1897), and Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1891). After him are Paul Kummer (1834), Ludwig Renn (1889), Yaakov Litzman (1948), Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1672), Anacharsis Cloots (1755), and Princess Elisabeth Anna of Prussia (1857).

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