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Frederick Jackson Turner

1861 - 1932

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Frederick Jackson Turner (November 14, 1861 – March 14, 1932) was an American historian during the early 20th century, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison until 1910, and then Harvard University. He was known primarily for his frontier thesis. He trained many PhDs who went on to become well-known historians. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick Jackson Turner has received more than 602,233 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Frederick Jackson Turner is the 197th most popular historian (up from 233rd in 2019), the 3,525th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,410th in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Historian.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Frederick Jackson Turner ranks 197 out of 339. Before him are Walter Laqueur, Quentin Skinner, Abraham Geiger, Constantine Lascaris, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, and W. Montgomery Watt. After him are Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Yitzhak Arad, Henri Maspero, Halil İnalcık, Antiochus of Syracuse, and Krste Misirkov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Frederick Jackson Turner ranks 73. Before him are Katō Tomosaburō, Félix Fénéon, Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke, Elin Danielson-Gambogi, Emil Wiechert, and Auguste Vaillant. After him are Henri Mathias Berthelot, Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg, Bhikaiji Cama, Meir Dizengoff, Kurt Hensel, and Jacques-Émile Blanche. Among people deceased in 1932, Frederick Jackson Turner ranks 61. Before him are Patrick Geddes, Pēteris Stučka, Begum Rokeya, Ignaz Seipel, Christian von Ehrenfels, and Karl Blossfeldt. After him are Rudolf Bauer, Francisco S. Carvajal, Paolo Boselli, Archduchess Maria Dorothea of Austria, Max Slevogt, and Harriet Backer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frederick Jackson Turner ranks 3,525 out of 18,182. Before him are Peter Senge (1947), Lisa Edelstein (1966), Jensen Ackles (1978), Charles Jencks (1939), Dominic Chianese (1931), and Scotty Moore (1931). After him are Stephen Paddock (1953), Lepke Buchalter (1897), Dutch Schultz (1902), Mitch Pileggi (1952), James Tiptree Jr. (1915), and Doug Savant (1964).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Frederick Jackson Turner ranks 10. Before him are Barbara W. Tuchman (1912), Hayden White (1928), Richard Sennett (1943), Howard Zinn (1922), Linda Nochlin (1931), and Deborah Lipstadt (1947). After him are Robert Darnton (1939), John King Fairbank (1907), William H. Prescott (1796), Natalie Zemon Davis (1928), Donald Keene (1922), and Joan Wallach Scott (1941).

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