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Hieronymus Wolf

1516 - 1580

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Hieronymus Wolf (13 August 1516 – 8 October 1580) was a sixteenth-century German historian and humanist, most famous for introducing a system of Roman historiography that eventually became the standard in works of medieval Byzantine history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hieronymus Wolf has received more than 100,315 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Hieronymus Wolf is the 136th most popular historian (down from 95th in 2019), the 1,973rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,349th in 2019) and the 17th most popular German Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Hieronymus Wolf ranks 136 out of 561. Before him are Peter Burke, Emmanuel Todd, François Furet, Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, and Michael Attaleiates. After him are Jan Assmann, Evagrius Scholasticus, John Kinnamos, Doukas, Philostorgius, and Augustin Thierry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1516, Hieronymus Wolf ranks 7. Before him are Mary I of England, Conrad Gessner, Bayinnaung, Margaret Leijonhufvud, William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, and Tabinshwehti. After him are André Thevet, Cristóvão da Gama, Realdo Colombo, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Söyembikä of Kazan, and John Foxe. Among people deceased in 1580, Hieronymus Wolf ranks 13. Before him are Ruy López de Segura, Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly, Inés Suárez, Dorothea of Denmark, Electress Palatine, and Juliana of Stolberg. After him are Philippine Welser, Marie of Baden-Sponheim, Alonso Mudarra, Giovanni Morone, Raphael Holinshed, and Jerónimo Zurita y Castro.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hieronymus Wolf ranks 1,973 out of 7,253. Before him are Paul Gerhardt (1607), Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1906), Christoph Schneider (1966), Alfred Schmidt (1931), Heinrich Schwarz (1906), and Fritz Wunderlich (1930). After him are Benno (1010), Johann Baptist von Spix (1781), Philipp Veit (1793), Alexander Gauland (1941), Georg Lindemann (1884), and Manfred Kaltz (1953).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Hieronymus Wolf ranks 17. Before him are Christoph Cellarius (1638), Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (1876), Reinhart Koselleck (1923), Golo Mann (1909), August Ludwig von Schlözer (1735), and Heinrich von Treitschke (1834). After him are Jan Assmann (1938), Helmold (1120), Hermann Abert (1871), Karl Krumbacher (1856), Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim (1701), and Gustav Hugo (1764).

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