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George Mosse

1918 - 1999

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Gerhard "George" Lachmann Mosse (September 20, 1918 – January 22, 1999) was a German-American social and cultural historian, who emigrated from Nazi Germany to Great Britain and then to the United States. He was professor of history at the University of Iowa, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and also in Israel, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Best known for his studies of Nazism, he authored more than 25 books on topics as diverse as constitutional history, Protestant theology, and the history of masculinity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Mosse has received more than 156,511 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). George Mosse is the 2,604th most popular writer (down from 2,337th in 2019), the 2,684th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,327th in 2019) and the 166th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, George Mosse ranks 2,604 out of 5,755Before him are Mirra Alfassa, Martin Walser, K. Shivaram Karanth, Antiochus Kantemir, Herman Gorter, and Leonard Woolf. After him are Vítězslav Nezval, Elmore Leonard, Ikki Kita, George Tabori, Konstantin Mihailović, and Armin T. Wegner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, George Mosse ranks 126Before him are Marie Smith Jones, Teresa Wright, James Aldridge, Antonín Mrkos, Ruggiero Ricci, and Jeff Chandler. After him are Jay Wright Forrester, Mickey Spillane, Willi Graf, Hendrik C. van de Hulst, Bruno Zevi, and María Mercader. Among people deceased in 1999, George Mosse ranks 98Before him are Jean Guitton, András Hegedüs, Pierre Bézier, Bob Peck, Karen Demirchyan, and Oscar Cullmann. After him are Ron Wyatt, Morris West, Sylvia Sidney, Fritz Fischer, Carlos Romero, and Vazgen Sargsyan.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, George Mosse ranks 2,684 out of 6,142Before him are Carl Brockelmann (1868), Sigmar Gabriel (1959), John II, Count Palatine of Simmern (1492), Rainer Bonhof (1952), Özlem Türeci (1967), and Ricardo Wolf (1887). After him are Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663), Armin T. Wegner (1886), Marianne Sägebrecht (1945), Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1897), John William III, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (1666), and Maximilian, Margrave of Baden (1933).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, George Mosse ranks 166Before him are Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715), Heinrich Hoffmann (1809), Ursula Kuczynski (1907), Mina Witkojc (1893), August von Platen-Hallermünde (1796), and Martin Walser (1927). After him are Armin T. Wegner (1886), Stefan Heym (1913), Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808), Albert of Aix (1060), Alfred Andersch (1914), and Malwida von Meysenbug (1816).