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Heinrich Graetz

1817 - 1891

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Heinrich Graetz (German: [ɡʁɛts]; 31 October 1817 – 7 September 1891) was a German exegete and one of the first historians to write a comprehensive history of the Jewish people from a Jewish perspective. Born Tzvi Hirsch Graetz to a butcher family in Xions (now Książ Wielkopolski), Grand Duchy of Posen, in Prussia (now in Poland), he attended Breslau University, but since Jews at that time were barred from receiving Ph.D.s there, he obtained his doctorate from the University of Jena. After 1845 he was principal of the Jewish Orthodox school of the Breslau community, and later taught history at the Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Graetz has received more than 132,588 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Graetz is the 214th most popular historian (down from 180th in 2019), the 627th most popular biography from Poland (down from 546th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Polish Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Heinrich Graetz ranks 214 out of 561. Before him are Aulus Cremutius Cordus, Constantine Lascaris, Zeev Sternhell, Friedrich Meinecke, Egon Friedell, and Guo Pu. After him are Antiochus of Syracuse, Vasily Klyuchevsky, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Ivane Javakhishvili, John Foxe, and Sigfried Giedion.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Heinrich Graetz ranks 44. Before him are Karl Vogt, Adolphe Alphand, Georg Herwegh, George Frederic Watts, Alfred Józef Potocki, and Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este. After him are Wilhelm Griesinger, Debendranath Tagore, Joseph Poelaert, Francesco de Sanctis, Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, and Alfred Des Cloizeaux. Among people deceased in 1891, Heinrich Graetz ranks 64. Before him are Adolphe Alphand, John A. Macdonald, Ion C. Brătianu, Sanjō Sanetomi, Miklós Ybl, and Charles Joshua Chaplin. After him are Pōmare V, Louis Paulsen, Carl Johan Thyselius, Alexander Potebnja, Theodor Aman, and Charles Stewart Parnell.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Heinrich Graetz ranks 627 out of 1,694. Before him are Ernst Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1863), Daniel Chodowiecki (1726), Max Abraham (1875), Michał Rola-Żymierski (1890), Ewa Kłobukowska (1946), and Jan Czochralski (1885). After him are Tadeusz Różewicz (1921), Peter Berling (1934), Julius von Sachs (1832), Adam Michnik (1946), Stanisław Szukalski (1893), and Myer Prinstein (1878).

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Among HISTORIANS In Poland

Among historians born in Poland, Heinrich Graetz ranks 11. Before him are Ernst Kantorowicz (1895), Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821), Otto von Gierke (1841), Karl Otfried Müller (1797), Walter Laqueur (1921), and Zeev Sternhell (1935). After him are Israel Gutman (1923), Jacob Talmon (1916), Fritz Stern (1926), Jan T. Gross (1947), Franz Theodor Kugler (1808), and Benjamin Mazar (1906).

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