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Emil Rathenau

1838 - 1915

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Emil Moritz Rathenau (11 December 1838 – 20 June 1915) was a German entrepreneur, industrialist, mechanical engineer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emil Rathenau has received more than 82,755 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Emil Rathenau is the 360th most popular businessperson (up from 361st in 2019), the 3,413th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,356th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular German Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 83k

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  • 52.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Emil Rathenaus by language

Over the past year Emil Rathenau has had the most page views in the with 16,279 views, followed by English (11,924), and Russian (1,914). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Finnish (178.57%), Norwegian (Nynorsk) (46.96%), and Esperanto (41.71%)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Emil Rathenau ranks 360 out of 847Before him are Haim Saban, Oleg Deripaska, Siegfried Bing, Uğur Şahin, Allen Klein, and Karl Wittgenstein. After him are John D. Rockefeller III, Maxwell Perkins, Nino Cerruti, Thomas Blake Glover, Gustav Wiederkehr, and Mikhail Fridman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Emil Rathenau ranks 64Before him are Sherburne Wesley Burnham, August Šenoa, Karl Weyprecht, Henry Irving, Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso, and Siegfried Bing. After him are Thomas Blake Glover, Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg, Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi, Yisrael Meir Kagan, James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, and Karl Davydov. Among people deceased in 1915, Emil Rathenau ranks 67Before him are Joe Hill, Adolphe Pégoud, Arthur Hughes, Eugène Jansson, Serafino Vannutelli, and Ruben Sevak. After him are Morgan Robertson, Stojan Novaković, Fanny Crosby, Booker T. Washington, Pascual Orozco, and Louis Pergaud.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Emil Rathenau ranks 3,413 out of 7,253Before him are Caesarius of Heisterbach (1180), Curt von Bardeleben (1861), Kurt Moll (1938), Aribert Reimann (1936), Peter Winter (1754), and Karl Wittgenstein (1847). After him are Albertus Pictor (1440), Otto Hölder (1859), Caspar Peucer (1525), Jacob, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1407), Joshua Kimmich (1995), and Anton Koberger (1440).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Emil Rathenau ranks 43Before him are Johanna Quandt (1926), Henry E. Steinway (1797), Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1884), Martin Winterkorn (1947), Siegfried Bing (1838), and Karl Wittgenstein (1847). After him are Susanne Klatten (1962), Albert Ballin (1857), Elizabeth Christ Trump (1880), Adolf Merckle (1934), Peter Thiel (1967), and Ernest Oppenheimer (1880).