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Friedrich Meinecke

1862 - 1954

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Friedrich Meinecke (October 20, 1862 – February 6, 1954) was a German historian with national liberal and antisemitic views who supported the Nazi invasion of Poland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Meinecke has received more than 124,791 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Friedrich Meinecke is the 211th most popular historian (up from 230th in 2019), the 2,900th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,012th in 2019) and the 25th most popular German Historian.

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  • 120k

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  • 53.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Friedrich Meinecke ranks 211 out of 561. Before him are Karl Otfried Müller, Walter Laqueur, Tony Judt, Aulus Cremutius Cordus, Constantine Lascaris, and Zeev Sternhell. After him are Egon Friedell, Guo Pu, Heinrich Graetz, Antiochus of Syracuse, Vasily Klyuchevsky, and Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Friedrich Meinecke ranks 75. Before him are Hugo Erdmann, Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, Wil van Gogh, Mykola Pymonenko, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, and Theodor Boveri. After him are William Wallace Campbell, Alexander Guchkov, Robert Ford, Fatma Aliye Topuz, Charles Evans Hughes, and Vilhelm Bjerknes. Among people deceased in 1954, Friedrich Meinecke ranks 68. Before him are Fritz London, Prince Ernst of Hohenberg, Mikimoto Kōkichi, Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Onofre Marimón, and Sait Faik Abasıyanık. After him are Wilhelm Brückner, Frans G. Bengtsson, Henri Laurens, Édouard Le Roy, M. N. Roy, and Rudolf Beran.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Meinecke ranks 2,900 out of 7,253. Before him are Albert V, Duke of Saxe-Coburg (1648), Hugo Preuß (1860), Christiane Kubrick (1932), Heinrich Kiepert (1818), Wolfgang Preiss (1910), and Adolf Ziegler (1892). After him are Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796), Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1676), Johann Fust (1400), Johann Kremer (1883), Wilhelm Batz (1916), and Armin Laschet (1961).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Friedrich Meinecke ranks 25. Before him are Helmold (1120), Hermann Abert (1871), Karl Krumbacher (1856), Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim (1701), Gustav Hugo (1764), and Karl Lamprecht (1856). After him are Moritz Cantor (1829), Johannes Aventinus (1477), Gerardus Vossius (1577), Fritz Fischer (1908), Arno Peters (1916), and Abraham Geiger (1810).

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