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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 22,950 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Janusz Kurtyka is the 456th most popular historian (up from 15,032nd in 2019), the 1,217th most popular biography from Poland (down from 1,052nd in 2019) and the 17th most popular Polish Historian.

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  • 23k

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  • 34.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Janusz Kurtyka ranks 456 out of 339. Before him are Richard Bauckham, Gerhard Weinberg, Edward Duyker, Allan Lichtman, Bernard Bailyn, and Peeter Järvelaid. After him are Soner Cagaptay, Victor Davis Hanson, Adrian Goldsworthy, Michael Wood, William Dalrymple, and Rémi Mathis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Janusz Kurtyka ranks 624. Before him are Yasushi Yoshida, Buck Williams, José Antonio Alonso, Markos Kyprianou, Lesley Sharp, and Bill Johnson. After him are Richard Mastracchio, Vicki Lewis, Chira Apostol, Kevin Clash, David Nutter, and Marty Jannetty. Among people deceased in 2010, Janusz Kurtyka ranks 423. Before him are Eddie Baily, Sławomir Skrzypek, Barbara Billingsley, Ksenija Pajčin, Stephen Schneider, and Wally Hickel. After him are Frances Reid, Edwin Morgan, Kage Baker, Fatima Meer, Abdolmalek Rigi, and William B. Saxbe.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Janusz Kurtyka ranks 1,217 out of 1,454. Before him are Karol Linetty (1995), Ireneusz Jeleń (1981), Cleo (1983), Natalia Avelon (1980), Łukasz Skorupski (1991), and Bartosz Bereszyński (1992). After him are Jerzy Janowicz (1990), Tomasz Majewski (1981), Tomasz Rząsa (1973), Ewa Sonnet (1985), Adam Matysek (1968), and Mariusz Jop (1978).

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Among HISTORIANS In Poland

Among historians born in Poland, Janusz Kurtyka ranks 17. Before him are Karl Otfried Müller (1797), Jacob Talmon (1916), Fritz Stern (1926), Jan T. Gross (1947), Benjamin Mazar (1906), and Albrecht Weber (1825).

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