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Heinrich Ewald

1803 - 1875

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Georg Heinrich August Ewald (16 November 1803 – 4 May 1875) was a German orientalist, Protestant theologian, and Biblical exegete. He studied at the University of Göttingen. In 1827 he became extraordinary professor there, in 1831 ordinary professor of theology, and in 1835 professor of oriental languages. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Ewald has received more than 43,312 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Ewald is the 352nd most popular historian (down from 267th in 2019), the 4,095th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,514th in 2019) and the 47th most popular German Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Heinrich Ewald ranks 352 out of 339Before him are Neagu Djuvara, Riane Eisler, Henri Grégoire, Alain Daniélou, Cyril Toumanoff, and David Marshall Lang. After him are Taner Akçam, Frances Yates, Boris Rybakov, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Patricia Crone, and Peter Gay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Heinrich Ewald ranks 60Before him are Johann Carl Fuhlrott, Karl Schorn, Carl Jacob Löwig, Bernardo Berro, Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen, and Sarah Childress Polk. After him are Miles Joseph Berkeley, Johann Jakob Kaup, Juan Bravo Murillo, Sarah Yorke Jackson, George Borrow, and Domingo Nieto. Among people deceased in 1875, Heinrich Ewald ranks 64Before him are Atanasio Aguirre, Mikhail Pogodin, José María Ventura Casas, Zecharias Frankel, Fyodor Bruni, and John Gardner Wilkinson. After him are Henry Kellett, William Sterndale Bennett, Maria Röhl, Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling, Atis Kronvalds, and Joseph Othmar Rauscher.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Ewald ranks 4,095 out of 6,142Before him are Timo Werner (1996), Johann Friedrich Höger (1877), Michael, Prince of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1946), Otto Winzer (1902), Helma Sanders-Brahms (1940), and Carl Theodore Liebermann (1842). After him are Karl Leberecht Immermann (1796), Julius Döpfner (1913), Volker Bouffier (1951), Elfriede Kaun (1914), Andreas Scholl (1967), and Magdalena Sibylla of Holstein-Gottorp (1631).

Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Heinrich Ewald ranks 47Before him are Hermann Conring (1606), Georg Gottfried Gervinus (1805), Heinrich Gelzer (1847), Gerhard Ritter (1888), Franz Babinger (1891), and Joseph Hergenröther (1824). After him are Peter Gay (1923), Nikolaus Pevsner (1902), Walter Jens (1923), Hermann Oldenberg (1854), Rainer Zitelmann (1957), and Oliver Grau (1965).