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Charles A. Beard

1874 - 1948

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Charles Austin Beard (November 27, 1874 – September 1, 1948) was an American historian and professor, who wrote primarily during the first half of the 20th century. A history professor at Columbia University, Beard's influence is primarily due to his publications in the fields of history and political science. His works included a radical re-evaluation of the Founding Fathers of the United States, whom he believed to be more motivated by economics than by philosophical principles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles A. Beard has received more than 455,439 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Charles A. Beard is the 466th most popular historian (down from 399th in 2019), the 7,846th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,698th in 2019) and the 29th most popular American Historian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 460k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Charles A. Beards by language

Over the past year Charles A. Beard has had the most page views in the with 44,145 views, followed by Japanese (2,527), and Chinese (2,370). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Esperanto (96.95%), Norwegian (Nynorsk) (77.81%), and Galician (66.54%)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Charles A. Beard ranks 466 out of 561. Before him are Simon Janashia, Ji Xianlin, Lidiya Ponomarenko, William Robertson, Arthur Smith Woodward, and Hermann Oldenberg. After him are Benjamin Mazar, Djibril Tamsir Niane, Zhao Rukuo, Timofey Granovsky, Charles Homer Haskins, and Nikolaus Pevsner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Charles A. Beard ranks 210. Before him are Hermann Wilker, André Gaudin, Mary Garden, Grantley Goulding, Sergey Lebedev, and Joseph Olivier. After him are Guido Balzarini, Henry Kolker, Cathal Brugha, Aleksander Prystor, Charles R. Knight, and Owen D. Young. Among people deceased in 1948, Charles A. Beard ranks 165. Before him are George Milne, 1st Baron Milne, Adolf Kainz, Edgar Kennedy, Franz Weidenreich, Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey, and Vasily Kachalov. After him are Ladislav Troják, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Henri Hazebrouck, Dale Fuller, Arthur Whitten Brown, and Malcolm Campbell.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles A. Beard ranks 7,846 out of 20,380. Before him are Carl Blegen (1887), Sidney Verba (1932), Julius J. Epstein (1909), Jerry Lawler (1949), Blanche Sweet (1896), and Jane Bowles (1917). After him are Paul Dano (1984), Stuart Hameroff (1947), Anya Taylor-Joy (1996), Donna Mills (1940), Lee Cronbach (1916), and John Gardner (1933).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Charles A. Beard ranks 29. Before him are Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917), Daniel Pipes (1949), Carl Benjamin Boyer (1906), Daniel J. Boorstin (1914), Robert Jay Lifton (1926), and Lothrop Stoddard (1883). After him are Charles Homer Haskins (1870), Rudolph Rummel (1932), Christopher Browning (1944), Samuel Eliot Morison (1887), Alfred W. Crosby (1931), and Christopher Lasch (1932).

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