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Jacob Talmon

1916 - 1980

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Jacob Leib Talmon (Hebrew: יעקב טלמון; June 14, 1916 – June 16, 1980) was Professor of Modern History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He studied the genealogy of totalitarianism, arguing that political Messianism stemmed from the French Revolution, and stressed the similarities between Jacobinism and Stalinism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacob Talmon has received more than 68,651 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jacob Talmon is the 352nd most popular historian (down from 329th in 2019), the 883rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 855th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Polish Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Jacob Talmon ranks 352 out of 561. Before him are Jérôme Carcopino, Fernão Lopes, William H. Prescott, John Keegan, Robert Darnton, and Ernest Labrousse. After him are Stanley G. Payne, Ernest Lavisse, Helene Ahrweiler, Henri Grégoire, Marc Fumaroli, and Peter Gay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Jacob Talmon ranks 171. Before him are Tatevik Sazandaryan, Bruno Chizzo, Harry James, Herbert Norkus, Adriana Caselotti, and Eugene McCarthy. After him are Hidetoki Takahashi, Fernando Lamas, Olga Lepeshinskaya, James B. Donovan, Pruden, and David White. Among people deceased in 1980, Jacob Talmon ranks 186. Before him are Maurice Genevoix, Ragnar Gustavsson, Lado Gudiashvili, Jijé, Victor Sen Yung, and Peppino De Filippo. After him are Vladimír Holan, Toshiko Yuasa, Mia May, Jacqueline Cochran, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, and Uttam Kumar.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jacob Talmon ranks 883 out of 1,694. Before him are Kazimierz Sosnkowski (1885), Józef Kozłowski (1757), Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński (1874), Mascha Kaléko (1907), Theodor Tolsdorff (1909), and Władysław Ślewiński (1856). After him are Salomon Jadassohn (1831), Johannes Winkler (1897), Szymon Czechowicz (1689), Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884), Wanda Jakubowska (1907), and Johann Christian Günther (1695).

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Among HISTORIANS In Poland

Among historians born in Poland, Jacob Talmon ranks 13. Before him are Otto von Gierke (1841), Karl Otfried Müller (1797), Walter Laqueur (1921), Zeev Sternhell (1935), Heinrich Graetz (1817), and Israel Gutman (1923). After him are Fritz Stern (1926), Jan T. Gross (1947), Franz Theodor Kugler (1808), Benjamin Mazar (1906), Albrecht Weber (1825), and Janusz Kurtyka (1960).

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