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Franz Babinger

1891 - 1967

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Franz Babinger (15 January 1891 – 23 June 1967) was a well-known German orientalist and historian of the Ottoman Empire, best known for his biography of the great Ottoman emperor Mehmed II, known as "the Conqueror", originally published as Mehmed der Eroberer und seine Zeit. An English translation by Ralph Manheim is available from Princeton University Press under the title Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Babinger has received more than 42,914 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Babinger is the 340th most popular historian, the 4,019th most popular biography from Germany and the 45th most popular German Historian.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.19

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  • 1.68

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Franz Babinger ranks 340 out of 339. Before him are Thomas Fuller, Aleksey Shakhmatov, Chimalpahin, Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, Efraim Zuroff, and Jan T. Gross. After him are Ronald Syme, Marc Fumaroli, Joseph Hergenröther, Tom Segev, Ernest Lavisse, and Neagu Djuvara.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Franz Babinger ranks 187. Before him are Harry Cohn, E. A. Dupont, Birbal Sahni, Victor Varconi, Hélène Sparrow, and Nikoloz Muskhelishvili. After him are Philipp Etter, Zofia Stryjeńska, Issay Dobrowen, Jan Wils, Otilio Ulate Blanco, and Ted Meredith. Among people deceased in 1967, Franz Babinger ranks 183. Before him are William Christian Bullitt Jr., Jean Alexandre Barré, Gigi Meroni, Francis Spellman, Hans Jacob Nielsen, and Ernestas Galvanauskas. After him are Anton Walbrook, Ramón Encinas, Walter Krueger, Percy Hodge, Mischa Auer, and Rexhep Mitrovica.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Franz Babinger ranks 4,019 out of 6,142. Before him are Gottfried Kirch (1639), Hans Goldschmidt (1861), Jacob Hübner (1761), Gottlieb von Jagow (1863), Helmut Käutner (1908), and Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff (1807). After him are Ludwig Biermann (1907), Axel von dem Bussche (1919), Gerhard Stoltenberg (1928), Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen (1760), Rolf Singer (1906), and Theodor Curtius (1857).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Franz Babinger ranks 45. Before him are Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (1752), Moritz Cantor (1829), Hermann Conring (1606), Georg Gottfried Gervinus (1805), Heinrich Gelzer (1847), and Gerhard Ritter (1888). After him are Joseph Hergenröther (1824), Heinrich Ewald (1803), Peter Gay (1923), Nikolaus Pevsner (1902), Walter Jens (1923), and Hermann Oldenberg (1854).

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