HISTORIAN

Fritz Fischer

1908 - 1999

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Fritz Fischer (5 March 1908 – 1 December 1999) was a German historian best known for his analysis of the causes of World War I. In the early 1960s Fischer advanced the controversial thesis at the time that responsibility for the outbreak of the war rested solely on Imperial Germany. Fischer's anti-revisionist claims shocked the West German government and historical establishment, as it made Germany guilty for both world wars, challenging the national belief in Germany's innocence and converting its recent history into one of conquest and aggression. Fischer was named in The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing as the most important German historian of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fritz Fischer has received more than 276,718 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Fritz Fischer is the 249th most popular historian (down from 207th in 2019), the 3,256th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,870th in 2019) and the 29th most popular German Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Fritz Fischer ranks 249 out of 561. Before him are Krste Misirkov, Gerardus Vossius, Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Vakhushti of Kartli, Yahya of Antioch, and Quentin Skinner. After him are Festus, İlber Ortaylı, Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, Arno Peters, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, and Ibn Hayyan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Fritz Fischer ranks 166. Before him are Gioacchino Guaragna, Titus Burckhardt, Luis Regueiro, William Hartnell, Nikolay Nosov, and Baby Face Nelson. After him are Virginia Cherrill, Ho Jong-suk, René Daumal, Bronisława Wajs, Bobojon Ghafurov, and Pál Titkos. Among people deceased in 1999, Fritz Fischer ranks 118. Before him are Nahum Stelmach, Nise da Silveira, Bob Peck, Ron Wyatt, Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, and Kazuo Sakamaki. After him are Horst Frank, Grover Washington Jr., Mario Soldati, Flávio Costa, Reiner Klimke, and Paul Sacher.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Fritz Fischer ranks 3,256 out of 7,253. Before him are George I, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1747), Christian Petzold (1960), John Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1677), Paul van Dyk (1971), Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen (1926), and Johann Philipp, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1597). After him are Christoph Friedrich Nicolai (1733), Georg Sauerwein (1831), Horst Frank (1929), Carola Neher (1900), Ernst May (1886), and Hans Bauer (1927).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Fritz Fischer ranks 29. Before him are Gustav Hugo (1764), Karl Lamprecht (1856), Friedrich Meinecke (1862), Moritz Cantor (1829), Johannes Aventinus (1477), and Gerardus Vossius (1577). After him are Arno Peters (1916), Abraham Geiger (1810), Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729), Max Jakob Friedländer (1867), Philipp Spitta (1841), and Ludwig von Pastor (1854).

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