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Gerhard Weinberg

1928 - Today

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Gerhard Ludwig Weinberg (born 1 January 1928) is a German-born American diplomatic and military historian noted for his studies in the history of Nazi Germany and World War II. Weinberg is the William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been a member of the history faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill since 1974. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerhard Weinberg has received more than 206,224 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Gerhard Weinberg is the 546th most popular historian (down from 450th in 2019), the 5,987th most popular biography from Germany (down from 5,207th in 2019) and the 61st most popular German Historian.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Gerhard Weinberg ranks 546 out of 561. Before him are Gábor Kósa, Francis Parkman, Anthony Grafton, Oliver Grau, Ellen Meiksins Wood, and Irfan Habib. After him are Bernard Bailyn, Janusz Kurtyka, Stephen Kotkin, Allan Lichtman, Wendy Beckett, and Stephen Turnbull.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Gerhard Weinberg ranks 587. Before him are Toaripi Lauti, Salvador Laurel, Jackie Mason, June Maston, Chris Brasher, and Jimmy Hill. After him are Jim Rathmann, Joseph Bernardin, Philip Levine, Robert Bergland, Albert Brewer, and John Disley.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gerhard Weinberg ranks 5,987 out of 7,253. Before him are Daniel Caligiuri (1988), Christiane Wartenberg (1956), Barbara Krug (1956), Peter Hirsch (1925), Daniel Domscheit-Berg (1978), and Apparat (1978). After him are Ska Keller (1981), Hakan Balta (1983), Lou (1963), Jürgen Straub (1953), Holger Fach (1962), and Sinan Şamil Sam (1974).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Gerhard Weinberg ranks 61. Before him are Eberhard Jäckel (1929), Hermann Oldenberg (1854), Nikolaus Pevsner (1902), Walter Jens (1923), Rainer Zitelmann (1957), and Oliver Grau (1965).

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