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George Ostrogorsky

1902 - 1976

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George Alexandrovich Ostrogorsky (Russian: Георгий Александрович Острогорский, romanized: Georgiy Aleksandrovich Ostrogorskiy; Serbian: Георгије Александрович Острогорски, Georgije Aleksandrovič Ostrogorski; 19 January 1902 – 24 October 1976) was a Russian-born Yugoslavian historian and Byzantinist who was widely known for his achievements in Byzantine studies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Ostrogorsky has received more than 84,810 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). George Ostrogorsky is the 87th most popular historian (down from 85th in 2019), the 388th most popular biography from Russia (up from 416th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Historian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 85k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year George Ostrogorsky has had the most page views in the with 12,160 views, followed by Serbian (5,791), and Russian (3,140). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Uzbek (145.09%), Latin (102.90%), and Serbo-Croatian (70.94%)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, George Ostrogorsky ranks 87 out of 561. Before him are Donna Haraway, Flavio Biondo, Al-Maqrizi, Georges Duby, Julius Wellhausen, and Erich Auerbach. After him are Al-Waqidi, Hermann Alexander Diels, Timaeus, Yuval Noah Harari, George Kedrenos, and Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, George Ostrogorsky ranks 49. Before him are Felix Wankel, Max Ophüls, Princess Mafalda of Savoy, Antonia Brico, Luis Barragán, and Lúcio Costa. After him are Pascual Jordan, Oskar Morgenstern, Wilhelm Stuckart, Mohammad Hatta, Carlo Gambino, and Mitsuo Fuchida. Among people deceased in 1976, George Ostrogorsky ranks 48. Before him are Paul Lazarsfeld, David Elazar, Yonatan Netanyahu, João Goulart, Kazi Nazrul Islam, and George Whipple. After him are Eileen Gray, Phil Ochs, Carlo Gambino, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Carol Reed, and Ivan Yakubovsky.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, George Ostrogorsky ranks 388 out of 3,761. Before him are Vladimir Kryuchkov (1924), Nathalie Sarraute (1900), Nikolay Semyonov (1896), Viktor Tsoi (1962), Leonid Andreyev (1871), and Andrei Bely (1880). After him are Velimir Khlebnikov (1885), Catherine Pavlovna of Russia (1788), Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890), Valery Leontiev (1949), Vasily Perov (1834), and Anton Arensky (1861).

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Among HISTORIANS In Russia

Among historians born in Russia, George Ostrogorsky ranks 2. Before him are Lev Gumilyov (1912). After him are Vasily Bartold (1869), Vladimir Minorsky (1877), Alexander Vasiliev (1867), Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841), Alexander Kazhdan (1922), Léon Poliakov (1910), Mikhail Pogodin (1800), Jacob Theodor Klein (1685), Mikhail Artamonov (1898), and Boris Rybakov (1908).

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