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Hermann Oldenberg

1854 - 1920

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Hermann Oldenberg (31 October 1854 – 18 March 1920) was a German scholar of Indology, and Professor at Kiel (1898) and Göttingen (1908). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann Oldenberg has received more than 63,679 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Oldenberg is the 465th most popular historian (down from 403rd in 2019), the 4,920th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,422nd in 2019) and the 56th most popular German Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Hermann Oldenberg ranks 465 out of 561. Before her are Richard J. Evans, Simon Janashia, Ji Xianlin, Lidiya Ponomarenko, William Robertson, and Arthur Smith Woodward. After her are Charles A. Beard, Benjamin Mazar, Djibril Tamsir Niane, Zhao Rukuo, Timofey Granovsky, and Charles Homer Haskins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Hermann Oldenberg ranks 109. Before her are Ivan Horbachevsky, David Dunbar Buick, Giuseppe Veronese, Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, Gottlieb Haberlandt, and Heinrich Kreutz. After her are Clorinda Matto de Turner, Joseph Jacobs, Francis Marion Crawford, William C. Gorgas, Dukinfield Henry Scott, and Ernest Belfort Bax. Among people deceased in 1920, Hermann Oldenberg ranks 112. Before her are William Dean Howells, Alberto Nepomuceno, Olive Schreiner, Horatio Caro, Robert Harron, and Max Fürbringer. After her are Ludwig Ganghofer, Edmund Reitter, Mary Katharine Brandegee, Arthur Johnson, William C. Gorgas, and Benigno Ferreira.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Oldenberg ranks 4,920 out of 7,253. Before her are Jörg Lucke (1942), Erhard Keller (1944), Matthias Reim (1957), Frank Schätzing (1957), Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch (1857), and Max Fürbringer (1846). After her are Jamal Musiala (2003), Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz (1904), Frank Shorter (1947), Erich Borchmeyer (1905), Tré Cool (1972), and Eduard von Martens (1831).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Hermann Oldenberg ranks 56. Before her are Gottfried Arnold (1665), Gerhard Ritter (1888), Heinrich Ewald (1803), Martin Noth (1902), Joseph Hergenröther (1824), and Eberhard Jäckel (1929). After her are Nikolaus Pevsner (1902), Walter Jens (1923), Rainer Zitelmann (1957), Oliver Grau (1965), and Gerhard Weinberg (1928).

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