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Heinrich Zimmer

1890 - 1943

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Heinrich Robert Zimmer (6 December 1890 – 20 March 1943) was a German Indologist and linguist, as well as a historian of South Asian art, most known for his works, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization and Philosophies of India. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Zimmer has received more than 164,334 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Zimmer is the 288th most popular historian (down from 250th in 2019), the 3,572nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,312th in 2019) and the 37th most popular German Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Heinrich Zimmer ranks 288 out of 339. Before him are John Keegan, Joan Wallach Scott, Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius, İbrahim Peçevi, Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, and Gerda Lerner. After him are İlber Ortaylı, Kurt Aland, Paul Kennedy, Edwin O. Reischauer, Jerónimo Zurita y Castro, and Donald Kagan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Heinrich Zimmer ranks 141. Before him are Maurice Genevoix, Alexander Granach, Armas Taipale, Katherine Anne Porter, Helge Løvland, and Cecil Kellaway. After him are Moa Martinson, Yitzhak Sadeh, Joseph Helffrich, Lily Kronberger, Erich Weinert, and Lev Chernyi. Among people deceased in 1943, Heinrich Zimmer ranks 129. Before him are Gyula Peidl, Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt, Radclyffe Hall, Eugeniusz Bodo, Curt Haase, and Attila Petschauer. After him are Henner Henkel, Aleš Hrdlička, Harry Baur, Kočo Racin, Estella Agsteribbe, and Anita Augspurg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Zimmer ranks 3,572 out of 6,142. Before him are Joseph Vilsmaier (1939), Princess Ida of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1804), Anton Ackermann (1905), Paul Reinecke (1872), Hillel Furstenberg (1935), and Franz Xaver Gabelsberger (1789). After him are Cosmas Damian Asam (1686), Edgar Hilsenrath (1926), Nicolaus von Amsdorf (1483), Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1585), Rudolf Schlechter (1872), and Ernst Lehner (1912).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Heinrich Zimmer ranks 37. Before him are Johannes Aventinus (1477), Max Jakob Friedländer (1867), Walter Burkert (1931), Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim (1701), Ubbo Emmius (1547), and Gerhard Friedrich Müller (1705). After him are Kurt Aland (1915), Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (1752), Moritz Cantor (1829), Hermann Conring (1606), Georg Gottfried Gervinus (1805), and Heinrich Gelzer (1847).

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