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Ernst Kantorowicz

1895 - 1963

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Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz (May 3, 1895 – September 9, 1963) was a German historian of medieval political and intellectual history and art, known for his 1927 book Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite on Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, and The King's Two Bodies (1957) on medieval and early modern ideologies of monarchy and the state. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Kantorowicz has received more than 166,653 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Ernst Kantorowicz is the 170th most popular historian (down from 139th in 2019), the 519th most popular biography from Poland (down from 448th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Polish Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Ernst Kantorowicz ranks 170 out of 561. Before him are E. P. Thompson, Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi, Guibert of Nogent, Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad, Edgar Quinet, and Sozomen. After him are Karl Krumbacher, Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, Howard Zinn, Charles Diehl, Anthony Blunt, and Michael Glykas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Ernst Kantorowicz ranks 113. Before him are Matthew Ridgway, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Hans Loritz, Josef Bürckel, René Mayer, and Rolf Nevanlinna. After him are Bertil Lindblad, Tomoji Tanabe, Pan Yuliang, Ernesto Lecuona, Isamu Chō, and Robert Heinrich Wagner. Among people deceased in 1963, Ernst Kantorowicz ranks 71. Before him are Berthold, Margrave of Baden, Jacob Gade, Jacques Villon, Sarit Thanarat, Seth Barnes Nicholson, and Margaret Murray. After him are Rahul Sankrityayan, Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Richard Kohn, Robert Stroud, Edith Hamilton, and Ernesto Lecuona.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Ernst Kantorowicz ranks 519 out of 1,694. Before him are Eduard Strasburger (1844), Paweł Pawlikowski (1957), Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727), Catherine of Brandenburg-Küstrin (1549), Emil Leon Post (1897), and Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836). After him are Jack Tramiel (1928), Gustav Flatow (1875), Bronisław Huberman (1882), Nikita Ivanovich Panin (1718), George Adamski (1891), and Stefan Żeromski (1864).

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Among HISTORIANS In Poland

Among historians born in Poland, Ernst Kantorowicz ranks 5. Before him are Johann Gustav Droysen (1808), Benzion Netanyahu (1910), Richard Pipes (1923), and Gottfried Achenwall (1719). After him are Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821), Otto von Gierke (1841), Karl Otfried Müller (1797), Walter Laqueur (1921), Zeev Sternhell (1935), Heinrich Graetz (1817), and Israel Gutman (1923).

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