HISTORIAN

Christopher Browning

1944 - Today

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Christopher Robert Browning (born May 22, 1944) is an American historian and is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). A specialist on the Holocaust, Browning is known for his work documenting the Final Solution, the behavior of those implementing Nazi policies, and the use of survivor testimony. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christopher Browning has received more than 564,042 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Christopher Browning is the 477th most popular historian (down from 406th in 2019), the 8,139th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,122nd in 2019) and the 32nd most popular American Historian.

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  • 560k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Christopher Browning ranks 477 out of 561. Before him are Charles Homer Haskins, Nikolaus Pevsner, Rudolph Rummel, Anvar Chingizoglu, Catharine Macaulay, and Sara Ashurbeyli. After him are Samuel Eliot Morison, Firishta, Alfred W. Crosby, N. G. L. Hammond, William of Newburgh, and Richard Overy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Christopher Browning ranks 557. Before him are Bobby Heenan, Willy Planckaert, Emilio Zapico, Alex Acuña, Jacques Beurlet, and Braulio Rodríguez Plaza. After him are Orlando Martínez, Ken Howard, Gabriele Kuby, Russi Taylor, Yuriy Istomin, and Manfred Schmid.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Christopher Browning ranks 8,139 out of 20,380. Before him are Doug Liman (1965), Merna Kennedy (1908), Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858), Flavor Flav (1959), Joan Shawlee (1926), and Chris Owen (1980). After him are Johnnie Parsons (1918), Paul Creston (1906), Margaret Woodbridge (1902), Cliff Edwards (1895), Mike Farrell (1939), and Robert M. La Follette (1855).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Christopher Browning ranks 32. Before him are Daniel J. Boorstin (1914), Robert Jay Lifton (1926), Lothrop Stoddard (1883), Charles A. Beard (1874), Charles Homer Haskins (1870), and Rudolph Rummel (1932). After him are Samuel Eliot Morison (1887), Alfred W. Crosby (1931), Christopher Lasch (1932), American Horse (1840), Stephen F. Cohen (1938), and Stephen Greenblatt (1943).

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