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Fritz Stern

1926 - 2016

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Fritz Richard Stern (February 2, 1926 – May 18, 2016) was a German-born American historian of German history, Jewish history and historiography. He was a University Professor and a provost at New York's Columbia University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fritz Stern has received more than 120,945 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Fritz Stern is the 359th most popular historian (down from 332nd in 2019), the 895th most popular biography from Poland (down from 864th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Polish Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Fritz Stern ranks 359 out of 561Before him are Stanley G. Payne, Ernest Lavisse, Helene Ahrweiler, Henri Grégoire, Marc Fumaroli, and Peter Gay. After him are Ehsan Yarshater, Géza Alföldy, Franz Babinger, Leo Allatius, Francis Godwin, and Efraim Zuroff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Fritz Stern ranks 291Before him are Agostino Cacciavillan, Marcello Abbado, Bernard Agré, Helene Ahrweiler, Fritz Schär, and Aurèle Nicolet. After him are Kristen Nygaard, Rafael Lesmes, Enrico Maria Salerno, Héctor Vilches, Andy Griffith, and Danièle Delorme. Among people deceased in 2016, Fritz Stern ranks 286Before him are Merle Haggard, Edmonde Charles-Roux, Benoîte Groult, Jimmy Bain, William Trevor, and Aurèle Nicolet. After him are Georges Balandier, Akhtar Mansour, Pierre Aubert, Prince Buster, Nina Ponomaryova, and James Joseph Dresnok.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Fritz Stern ranks 895 out of 1,694Before him are Johann Christian Günther (1695), Paweł Adamowicz (1965), Zygmunt Gorazdowski (1845), Werner Olk (1938), Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski (1503), and Klausjürgen Wussow (1929). After him are Bogdan Borusewicz (1949), Szymon Marciniak (1981), Arkady Fiedler (1894), Bogusław Linda (1952), Ellen Schwiers (1930), and Szymon Goldberg (1909).

Among HISTORIANS In Poland

Among historians born in Poland, Fritz Stern ranks 14Before him are Karl Otfried Müller (1797), Walter Laqueur (1921), Zeev Sternhell (1935), Heinrich Graetz (1817), Israel Gutman (1923), and Jacob Talmon (1916). After him are Jan T. Gross (1947), Franz Theodor Kugler (1808), Benjamin Mazar (1906), Albrecht Weber (1825), and Janusz Kurtyka (1960).