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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 62,491 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jacob Talmon is the 329th most popular historian, the 855th most popular biography from Poland and the 12th most popular Polish Historian.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.55

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Jacob Talmon ranks 329 out of 339. Before him are Dino Compagni, Henrik Gabriel Porthan, Richard N. Frye, Heinrich Gelzer, Nicholas Adontz, and Gerhard Ritter. After him are Fenestella, Andrea Riccardi, Fritz Stern, Girolamo Mei, Thomas Fuller, and Aleksey Shakhmatov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Jacob Talmon ranks 189. Before him are Jenő Fock, John D. MacDonald, Ralph Nelson, Herbert Friedman, Anton Diffring, and David Douglas Duncan. After him are Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Lee Cronbach, Yasuji Miyazaki, Tatevik Sazandaryan, Arpenik Nalbandyan, and Pierre Emmanuel. Among people deceased in 1980, Jacob Talmon ranks 181. Before him are Rafael Paasio, Petar Trifunović, Philip Guston, Wilhelmina Cooper, Andrija Anković, and C. P. Snow. After him are Harri Larva, Vladimír Holan, Lado Gudiashvili, Zezé Procópio, José de Anchieta Fontana, and Rudolf Bürger.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jacob Talmon ranks 855 out of 1,454. Before him are Marek Belka (1952), Chava Alberstein (1946), Marek Hłasko (1934), Janusz Kamiński (1959), Wojciech Bogusławski (1757), and Paul Gordan (1837). After him are Józef Szmidt (1935), O. E. Hasse (1903), Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (1621), Mascha Kaléko (1907), Tadeusz Kotarbiński (1886), and Boris Chertok (1912).

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Among HISTORIANS In Poland

Among historians born in Poland, Jacob Talmon ranks 12. Before him are Benzion Netanyahu (1910), Heinrich Graetz (1817), Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821), Walter Laqueur (1921), Zeev Sternhell (1935), and Karl Otfried Müller (1797). After him are Fritz Stern (1926), Jan T. Gross (1947), Benjamin Mazar (1906), Albrecht Weber (1825), and Janusz Kurtyka (1960).

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