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J. B. M. Hertzog

1866 - 1942

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General James Barry Munnik Hertzog (3 April 1866 – 21 November 1942), better known as Barry Hertzog or J. B. M. Hertzog, was a South African politician and soldier. He was a Boer general during the Second Boer War who served as the third prime minister of the Union of South Africa from 1924 to 1939. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of J. B. M. Hertzog has received more than 427,016 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). J. B. M. Hertzog is the 11,057th most popular politician (down from 10,035th in 2019), the 59th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 56th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular South African Politician.

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  • 25

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.30

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, J. B. M. Hertzog ranks 11,057 out of 15,577Before him are Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon, Johann Georg Hiedler, Victoria Kent, Princess Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen, and Florence Harding. After him are Alla Kushnir, Rafael Núñez, August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Ioannis Rallis, Gaston Eyskens, and Ekaterina Maximova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, J. B. M. Hertzog ranks 81Before him are Tristan Bernard, Gustav Adolf von Götzen, Janis Rozentāls, Pyotr Lebedev, Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and Lizzie Magie. After him are Paul Lincke, Mario García Menocal, James J. Corbett, Prince Aribert of Anhalt, Andrey Lyapchev, and Ignacy Daszyński. Among people deceased in 1942, J. B. M. Hertzog ranks 122Before him are Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, Olha Kobylianska, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, Roberto Arlt, and Vladislav Vančura. After him are Guglielmo Ferrero, Prince Ludwig Gaston of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Wojciech Kossak, Mohammad Ali Foroughi, Roberto María Ortiz, and Emanuel Feuermann.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, J. B. M. Hertzog ranks 59 out of 374Before him are Alice Krige (1954), C. R. Swart (1894), Esther Brand (1922), Cyril Cusack (1910), Trevor Jones (1949), and Piet Joubert (1834). After him are Koos de la Rey (1847), David Cooper (1931), Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907), Abdullah Ibrahim (1934), Reggie Walker (1889), and Breyten Breytenbach (1939).

Among POLITICIANS In South Africa

Among politicians born in South Africa, J. B. M. Hertzog ranks 22Before him are John Vorster (1915), Marais Viljoen (1915), Dingane kaSenzangakhona (1795), Christiaan de Wet (1854), C. R. Swart (1894), and Piet Joubert (1834). After him are Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (1819), J. G. Strijdom (1893), Nico Diederichs (1903), Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868), Oliver Tambo (1917), and Walter Sisulu (1912).