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Golo Mann

1909 - 1994

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Golo Mann (born Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann; 27 March 1909 – 7 April 1994) was a popular German historian and essayist. Having completed a doctorate in philosophy under Karl Jaspers at Heidelberg, in 1933 he fled Hitler's Germany. He followed his father, the writer Thomas Mann and other members of his family in emigrating to France, Switzerland and the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Golo Mann has received more than 268,040 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Golo Mann is the 118th most popular historian (up from 122nd in 2019), the 1,816th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,877th in 2019) and the 15th most popular German Historian.

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  • 56.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Golo Mann ranks 118 out of 339Before him are Doukas, Michael Rostovtzeff, Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, C. Northcote Parkinson, Peter Burke, and Richard Sennett. After him are François Furet, Árni Magnússon, Anthony Blunt, Evagrius Scholasticus, Thomas Babington Macaulay, and Pierre Nora.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Golo Mann ranks 77Before him are Grażyna Bacewicz, Robert Brasillach, C. Northcote Parkinson, Tokizo Ichihashi, Werner Naumann, and Mikhail Mil. After him are Franz Six, Malcolm Lowry, Guy de Rothschild, Lester Young, Bernd Rosemeyer, and Roberto Burle Marx. Among people deceased in 1994, Golo Mann ranks 85Before him are Walter Lantz, Tengiz Abuladze, Ken Noritake, Kevin Carter, Federica Montseny, and Jérôme Lejeune. After him are Alain Cuny, Woody Strode, Donald Judd, Derek Jarman, Harry Nilsson, and Dick Sargent.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Golo Mann ranks 1,816 out of 6,142Before him are Karl Leopold, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1678), Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1878), Peter Cornelius (1824), Otto Braun (1900), Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871), and Henry XVI, Duke of Bavaria (1386). After him are Franz Six (1909), Franz Danzi (1763), Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730), William III, Landgrave of Thuringia (1425), Jenny-Wanda Barkmann (1922), and Duchess Amalie in Bavaria (1865).

Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Golo Mann ranks 15Before him are Julius Wellhausen (1844), Hieronymus Wolf (1516), Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (1876), Hermann Alexander Diels (1848), Reinhart Koselleck (1923), and Christoph Cellarius (1638). After him are August Ludwig von Schlözer (1735), Helmold (1120), Heinrich von Treitschke (1834), Jan Assmann (1938), Karl Lamprecht (1856), and Arno Peters (1916).