1908 - 1999
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, Fritz Fischer ranks 207 out of 339. Before 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.
1916 - 2016
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 201
450 BC - 450 BC
HPI: 52.41
Rank: 202
1874 - 1926
HPI: 52.38
Rank: 203
1888 - 1968
HPI: 52.38
Rank: 204
1894 - 1956
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 205
1841 - 1911
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 206
1908 - 1999
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 207
1890 - 1946
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 208
340 BC - 260 BC
HPI: 52.26
Rank: 209
1213 - 1286
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 210
1080 - 1140
HPI: 52.14
Rank: 211
1909 - 1991
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 212
1729 - 1812
HPI: 52.12
Rank: 213
Among people born in 1908, Fritz Fischer ranks 146. Before 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 102. Before 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.
1908 - 1970
HPI: 52.76
Rank: 140
1908 - 1973
HPI: 52.71
Rank: 141
1908 - 1977
HPI: 52.45
Rank: 142
1908 - 1993
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 143
1908 - 2000
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 144
1908 - 1997
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 145
1908 - 1999
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 146
1908 - 1994
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 147
1908 - 1973
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 148
1908 - 1978
HPI: 51.97
Rank: 149
1908 - 1992
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 150
1908 - 1991
HPI: 51.79
Rank: 151
1908 - 1976
HPI: 51.78
Rank: 152
1932 - 1999
HPI: 53.16
Rank: 96
1902 - 1999
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 97
1918 - 1999
HPI: 52.95
Rank: 98
1933 - 1999
HPI: 52.78
Rank: 99
1916 - 1999
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 100
1910 - 1999
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 101
1908 - 1999
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 102
1927 - 1999
HPI: 52.26
Rank: 103
1959 - 1999
HPI: 52.22
Rank: 104
1943 - 1999
HPI: 52.15
Rank: 105
1936 - 1999
HPI: 52.04
Rank: 106
1929 - 1999
HPI: 51.74
Rank: 107
1919 - 1999
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 108
Among people born in Germany, Fritz Fischer ranks 2,873 out of 6,142. Before 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).
1817 - 1875
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 2,867
1892 - 1949
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 2,868
1825 - 1905
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 2,869
1897 - 1970
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 2,870
1811 - 1878
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 2,871
1826 - 1908
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 2,872
1908 - 1999
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 2,873
1957 - 1985
HPI: 52.27
Rank: 2,874
1905 - 1990
HPI: 52.27
Rank: 2,875
1465 - 1524
HPI: 52.26
Rank: 2,876
1686 - 1752
HPI: 52.26
Rank: 2,877
1965 - Present
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 2,878
1900 - 1985
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 2,879
Among historians born in Germany, Fritz Fischer ranks 25. Before 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).
1938 - 2024
HPI: 54.31
Rank: 19
1856 - 1915
HPI: 53.97
Rank: 20
1916 - 2002
HPI: 53.48
Rank: 21
1871 - 1927
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 22
1577 - 1649
HPI: 53.00
Rank: 23
1810 - 1874
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 24
1908 - 1999
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 25
1729 - 1812
HPI: 52.12
Rank: 26
1856 - 1909
HPI: 52.03
Rank: 27
1862 - 1954
HPI: 51.70
Rank: 28
1841 - 1894
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 29
1845 - 1929
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 30
1477 - 1534
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 31