SOCIOLOGIST

Claus Offe

1940 - Today

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Claus Offe (born 16 March 1940 in Berlin) is a political sociologist of Marxist orientation. He received his PhD from the University of Frankfurt and his Habilitation at the University of Konstanz. In Germany, he has held chairs for Political Science and Political Sociology at the Universities of Bielefeld (1975–1989) and Bremen (1989–1995), as well as at the Humboldt-University of Berlin (1995–2005). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claus Offe has received more than 93,713 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Claus Offe is the 59th most popular sociologist (down from 56th in 2019), the 4,201st most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,662nd in 2019) and the 10th most popular German Sociologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 94k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Claus Offes by language

Over the past year Claus Offe has had the most page views in the with 8,880 views, followed by German (7,736), and Spanish (3,340). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Russian (175.56%), Basque (97.08%), and Egyptian Arabic (51.76%)

Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Claus Offe ranks 59 out of 79. Before him are T. H. Marshall, Robert N. Bellah, Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Raewyn Connell, Erik Olin Wright, and Jeffrey C. Alexander. After him are George Ritzer, Peter Blau, Michael Mann, Henri Hubert, Robert Nisbet, and Arlie Russell Hochschild.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Claus Offe ranks 307. Before him are Bill Medley, Viktor Savinykh, Brigitte Hamann, Arthur Laffer, Zhanna Prokhorenko, and Amjad Khan. After him are Léon Semmeling, Vincenzo Cerami, Luke Kelly, Jorma Kaukonen, Chris Farlowe, and Alberto Gallardo.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Claus Offe ranks 4,201 out of 7,253. Before him are Joachim Ringelnatz (1883), Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1906), Gottlieb von Jagow (1863), Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1640), Hugo Distler (1908), and Peter Schilling (1956). After him are Ferdinand Leitner (1912), Frederick I, Count Palatine of Simmern (1417), Frederick Loewe (1901), Adolf Grünbaum (1923), Jupp Kapellmann (1949), and Erna Berger (1900).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among sociologists born in Germany, Claus Offe ranks 10. Before him are Niklas Luhmann (1927), Robert Michels (1876), Andre Gunder Frank (1929), Amitai Etzioni (1929), Juan José Linz (1926), and Lewis A. Coser (1913). After him are Louis Wirth (1897).

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