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Eduard Wirths

1909 - 1945

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Eduard Wirths (4 September 1909 – 20 September 1945) was the chief SS doctor (SS-Standortarzt) at the Auschwitz concentration camp from September 1942 to January 1945. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eduard Wirths has received more than 543,871 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Eduard Wirths is the 308th most popular physician (down from 280th in 2019), the 2,350th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,063rd in 2019) and the 44th most popular German Physician.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Eduard Wirths ranks 308 out of 726. Before him are Aëtius of Amida, Hakaru Hashimoto, Titus Brandsma, William Osler, Thomas Sydenham, and Adolf Kussmaul. After him are Jean-Baptiste Denys, Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel, John Latham, Hinrich Lichtenstein, Johann Christian Reil, and Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Eduard Wirths ranks 109. Before him are Marie-Thérèse Walter, C. N. Annadurai, Nelson Algren, Harro Schulze-Boysen, Matti Järvinen, and Robert Serber. After him are Abdulrahman Fawzi, Mehmed Orhan, Franz Six, Gene Krupa, Indro Montanelli, and August Derleth. Among people deceased in 1945, Eduard Wirths ranks 162. Before him are John Basilone, Alla Nazimova, Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., Prince Kan'in Kotohito, and Nikolai Berzarin. After him are Jacques Doriot, Richard Thomalla, Matome Ugaki, Gustav Flatow, Hazi Aslanov, and Achille Starace.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Eduard Wirths ranks 2,350 out of 7,253. Before him are Stefan Effenberg (1968), William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1682), John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern (1543), Wols (1913), Adolf Kussmaul (1822), and Reiner Stahel (1892). After him are Adalbert of Hamburg (1000), Stefan Kuntz (1962), Korbinian Brodmann (1868), Sophie Caroline of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1705), Christian Otto Mohr (1835), and Amitai Etzioni (1929).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Eduard Wirths ranks 44. Before him are Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1735), Ernst Gräfenberg (1881), Horst Schumann (1906), Johann Conrad Dippel (1673), Sigmund Rascher (1909), and Adolf Kussmaul (1822). After him are Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel (1783), Hinrich Lichtenstein (1780), Johann Christian Reil (1759), Friedrich Hoffmann (1660), Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875), and Dorothea Erxleben (1715).

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