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Friedrich Kittler

1943 - 2011

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Friedrich Adolf Kittler (June 12, 1943 – October 18, 2011) was a literary scholar and a media theorist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Kittler has received more than 155,863 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Kittler is the 325th most popular historian, the 3,878th most popular biography from Germany and the 41st most popular German Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Friedrich Kittler ranks 325 out of 561Before him are Mikhail Pogodin, Cadmus of Miletus, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, Hafiz-i Abru, Abu Shama, and Johannes Meursius. After him are Gerhard Friedrich Müller, Heinrich Gelzer, Deborah Lipstadt, Donald Keene, Julien Ries, and Stephen E. Ambrose.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Friedrich Kittler ranks 361Before him are Daniel Kablan Duncan, Teruo Nimura, Pim Doesburg, Theodor Stolojan, Raúl Cubas Grau, and Joan Van Ark. After him are Arturo Ripstein, Eberhard Vogel, Katherine Karađorđević, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot, Crescenzio Sepe, and Kenichi Ohmae. Among people deceased in 2011, Friedrich Kittler ranks 217Before him are Patrick Leigh Fermor, Vang Pao, Coen Moulijn, Nicol Williamson, Valery Rozhdestvensky, and Robert Ballaman. After him are Ludo Martens, Ida Fink, George Devol, Jeff Conaway, Héctor Núñez, and Kenneth Mars.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Kittler ranks 3,878 out of 7,253Before him are Günther Schwägermann (1915), Michael Verhoeven (1938), Tatjana Patitz (1966), Johann Baptist Allgaier (1763), Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg (1537), and Uwe Boll (1965). After him are Gerhard Friedrich Müller (1705), Princess Marie Anne of Saxe-Altenburg (1864), Heinrich Gelzer (1847), Ernest Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1681), Karoline von Günderrode (1780), and Johann Theile (1646).

Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Friedrich Kittler ranks 41Before him are Ludwig von Pastor (1854), Ubbo Emmius (1547), Kurt Aland (1915), Wilhelm von Bode (1845), Hermann Conring (1606), and Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (1752). After him are Gerhard Friedrich Müller (1705), Heinrich Gelzer (1847), Walter Burkert (1931), Heinrich Zimmer (1890), Peter Gay (1923), and Franz Babinger (1891).