HISTORIAN

Janusz Kurtyka

1960 - 2010

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Janusz Marek Kurtyka (13 August 1960 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish historian, and from December 2005 until his death in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash, the second president of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN). Kurtyka was born in Kraków and obtained his degree in the History and Philosophy Department of the Jagiellonian University. He had been a historian at the Polish Academy of Sciences since 1985 where he specialized in Polish medieval and communist era history, modern history and historical methodology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Janusz Kurtyka has received more than 24,811 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Janusz Kurtyka is the 548th most popular historian (down from 455th in 2019), the 1,381st most popular biography from Poland (down from 1,217th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Polish Historian.

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  • 25k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 37.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Janusz Kurtyka ranks 548 out of 561. Before him are Anthony Grafton, Oliver Grau, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Irfan Habib, Gerhard Weinberg, and Bernard Bailyn. After him are Stephen Kotkin, Allan Lichtman, Wendy Beckett, Stephen Turnbull, Peter Heather, and Peeter Järvelaid.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Janusz Kurtyka ranks 676. Before him are Marin Raykov, Petar Lesov, Oliver Parker, Craig Hodges, Francesco Romano, and Angela Ahrendts. After him are Gary Trousdale, Jonathan Hill, Baron Hill of Oareford, Pete Willis, Anu Malik, John Fitzgerald, and Jeff Bergman. Among people deceased in 2010, Janusz Kurtyka ranks 475. Before him are Bill Dixon, Stephen Schneider, Teena Marie, Adele Mara, Helen Wagner, and Nodar Kumaritashvili. After him are Frank Giering, David Thompson, Abdolmalek Rigi, Dorothy Height, Larry Evans, and Massamasso Tchangai.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Janusz Kurtyka ranks 1,381 out of 1,694. Before him are Adam Matysek (1968), Krzysztof Bosak (1982), Rafał Majka (1989), Lech Koziejowski (1949), Bartosz Kurek (1988), and Magdalena Tul (1980). After him are Sebastian Boenisch (1987), Joanna Jędrzejczyk (1987), Olaf Lubaszenko (1968), Justyna Kowalczyk (1983), Tomasz Radzinski (1973), and Maciej Rybus (1989).

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Among HISTORIANS In Poland

Among historians born in Poland, Janusz Kurtyka ranks 19. Before him are Jacob Talmon (1916), Fritz Stern (1926), Jan T. Gross (1947), Franz Theodor Kugler (1808), Benjamin Mazar (1906), and Albrecht Weber (1825).

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