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Ian Kershaw

1943 - Today

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Sir Ian Kershaw (born 29 April 1943) is an English historian whose work has chiefly focused on the social history of 20th-century Germany. He is regarded by many as one of the world's foremost experts on Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, and is particularly noted for his biographies of Hitler. He was a follower of the German historian Martin Broszat, and until his retirement, he was a professor at the University of Sheffield. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ian Kershaw has received more than 1,116,189 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Ian Kershaw is the 149th most popular historian (down from 138th in 2019), the 1,539th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,583rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Historian.

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  • 1.1M

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  • 56.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Ian Kershaw ranks 149 out of 561. Before him are Mirkhvand, Vladimir Minorsky, Pierre Nora, Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, Max Dvořák, and Faustus of Byzantium. After him are Barbara W. Tuchman, Norman Davies, Gottfried Achenwall, Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, Hisham ibn al-Kalbi, and Edward Luttwak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Ian Kershaw ranks 172. Before him are James Levine, Bill Duke, John Eliot Gardiner, Soad Hosny, Raphael, and Horst-Dieter Höttges. After him are Edward Herrmann, Bob Woodward, Dick Taylor, Murtaz Khurtsilava, Boris Gromov, and Robert Gates.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ian Kershaw ranks 1,539 out of 8,785. Before him are Christopher Isherwood (1904), John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834), Robert Maynard (1684), Greg Lake (1947), Fraser Stoddart (1942), and Olaf Stapledon (1886). After him are Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild (1840), Anne Conway (1631), Jack W. Szostak (1952), Karen Armstrong (1944), William Walton (1902), and Henry Tandey (1891).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Ian Kershaw ranks 9. Before him are Edward Gibbon (1737), Bernard Lewis (1916), Henry Thomas Buckle (1821), Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800), C. Northcote Parkinson (1909), and Peter Burke (1937). After him are Norman Davies (1939), Arnold Toynbee (1852), E. P. Thompson (1924), Anthony Blunt (1907), Steven Runciman (1903), and Antony Beevor (1946).

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