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Edwin O. Reischauer

1910 - 1990

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Edwin Oldfather Reischauer ( RYSHE-ow-ər; October 15, 1910 – September 1, 1990) was an American diplomat, educator, and professor at Harvard University. Born in Tokyo to American educational missionaries, he became a leading scholar of the history and culture of Japan and East Asia. Together with George M. McCune, a scholar of Korea, in 1939 he developed the McCune–Reischauer romanization of the Korean language. Reischauer became involved in helping create US policy toward East Asia during and after World War II. President John F. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edwin O. Reischauer has received more than 209,293 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Edwin O. Reischauer is the 311th most popular historian (down from 292nd in 2019), the 1,028th most popular biography from Japan (down from 995th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Historian.

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  • 50.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Edwin O. Reischauer ranks 311 out of 561. Before him are Hermann Conring, Marsyas of Pella, Joan Wallach Scott, A. J. P. Taylor, Gerda Lerner, and André Clot. After him are Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius, Joseph-François Michaud, Miroslav Hroch, George Cœdès, Khalifah ibn Khayyat, and Domenico Losurdo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Edwin O. Reischauer ranks 192. Before him are Léon Poliakov, Roy J. Plunkett, Douglas Bader, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Diana Mosley, and Jafar Sharif-Emami. After him are Gyula Kállai, Antal Szabó, Herminio Masantonio, Aldo Donati, Viggo Kampmann, and Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark. Among people deceased in 1990, Edwin O. Reischauer ranks 154. Before him are Merab Mamardashvili, Jacques Soustelle, Mario Pizziolo, Dodo Abashidze, Đorđe Vujadinović, and A. J. P. Taylor. After him are Edmond Delfour, Marie-Dominique Chenu, Alberto Lleras Camargo, Joel McCrea, Luigi Beccali, and Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Edwin O. Reischauer ranks 1,028 out of 6,245. Before him are Hiroshi Nakajima (1928), Moto Hagio (1949), Hisashi Owada (1932), Yuko Shimizu (1946), Tatsumi Kimishima (1950), and Ōmura Masujirō (1824). After him are Akira Terao (1947), Yūjirō Ishihara (1934), Maruyama Ōkyo (1733), Mikio Sato (1928), Susumu Hirasawa (1954), and Tōru Furuya (1953).

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Among HISTORIANS In Japan

Among historians born in Japan, Edwin O. Reischauer ranks 1. 

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