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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 272,109 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Fritz Fischer is the 207th most popular historian (down from 205th in 2019), the 2,873rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,855th in 2019) and the 25th most popular German Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Fritz Fischer ranks 207 out of 339Before him are Halil İnalcık, Antiochus of Syracuse, Krste Misirkov, Sigfried Giedion, Évariste Lévi-Provençal, and Vasily Klyuchevsky. After him are Ahmad Kasravi, Philochorus, Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi, William of Malmesbury, Claude Cahen, and Christian Gottlob Heyne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Fritz Fischer ranks 146Before him are Bjarni Benediktsson, Karel Ančerl, Son Ngoc Thanh, Anna Sten, Elek Schwartz, and Maria Prymachenko. After him are Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, Lauri Lehtinen, Henryk Zygalski, Robert Morley, Ho Jong-suk, and Nikolay Nosov. Among people deceased in 1999, Fritz Fischer ranks 102Before him are Karen Demirchyan, Oscar Cullmann, George Mosse, Ron Wyatt, Morris West, and Sylvia Sidney. After him are Carlos Romero, Vazgen Sargsyan, Grover Washington Jr., Reiner Klimke, Horst Frank, and Oswaldo Guayasamín.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Fritz Fischer ranks 2,873 out of 6,142Before him are Georg Herwegh (1817), Otto Nerz (1892), Julius Oppert (1825), Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg (1897), Karl Gutzkow (1811), and Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1826). After him are Stefan Bellof (1957), Hans Freudenthal (1905), Johann von Staupitz (1465), Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1686), Tom Tykwer (1965), and Johanna Wolf (1900).

Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Fritz Fischer ranks 25Before him are Jan Assmann (1938), Karl Lamprecht (1856), Arno Peters (1916), Hermann Abert (1871), Gerardus Vossius (1577), and Abraham Geiger (1810). After him are Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729), Karl Krumbacher (1856), Friedrich Meinecke (1862), Philipp Spitta (1841), Wilhelm von Bode (1845), and Johannes Aventinus (1477).