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Ehsan Yarshater

1920 - 2018

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Ehsan Yarshater (Persian: احسان يارشاطر; April 3, 1920 – September 1, 2018) was an Iranian historian and linguist who specialized in Iranology. He was the founder and director of the Center for Iranian Studies, and Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Columbia University. He was the first Persian full-time professor at a U.S. university since World War II. He was one of the 40 editors of the Encyclopædia Iranica, with articles by 300 authors from various academic institutions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ehsan Yarshater has received more than 143,106 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Ehsan Yarshater is the 360th most popular historian (up from 365th in 2019), the 366th most popular biography from Iran (down from 336th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Iranian Historian.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Ehsan Yarshater ranks 360 out of 561. Before him are Ernest Lavisse, Helene Ahrweiler, Henri Grégoire, Marc Fumaroli, Peter Gay, and Fritz Stern. After him are Géza Alföldy, Franz Babinger, Leo Allatius, Francis Godwin, Efraim Zuroff, and Pierre Chaunu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Ehsan Yarshater ranks 281. Before him are Fedora Barbieri, Benoîte Groult, Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, Bruno Ruffo, Chushiro Hayashi, and Georges Balandier. After him are Rosemary Sutcliff, Helen Thomas, Richard N. Frye, Reginald Rose, Olga Orozco, and Clemar Bucci. Among people deceased in 2018, Ehsan Yarshater ranks 269. Before him are Tony Joe White, Vladimír Weiss, María Dolores Pradera, Dave Holland, Marty Balin, and Barbara Harris. After him are Rosenda Monteros, Lawrence Roberts, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Lucian Pintilie, Anne Treisman, and David Douglas Duncan.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Ehsan Yarshater ranks 366 out of 631. Before him are Ismail III (1733), Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani (1001), Viguen (1929), Nusrat Bhutto (1929), Sardar Azmoun (1995), and Marshall Manesh (1950). After him are Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh (1892), Alenush Terian (1921), Ebi (1949), Fakhr-un-Nisa (1092), Timur Shah Durrani (1748), and Darius Khondji (1955).

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Among HISTORIANS In Iran

Among historians born in Iran, Ehsan Yarshater ranks 6. Before him are Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (897), Ibn al-Faqih (null), Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi (1500), Ahmad Kasravi (1890), and Hafiz-i Abru (null). After him are Firishta (1560).

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