HISTORIAN

Johann Gustav Droysen

1808 - 1884

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Johann Gustav Bernhard Droysen (; German: [ˈdʁɔʏzn̩]; 6 July 1808 – 19 June 1884) was a German historian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Gustav Droysen has received more than 123,008 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Johann Gustav Droysen is the 54th most popular historian (up from 58th in 2019), the 143rd most popular biography from Poland (up from 149th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Historian.

Johann Gustav Droysen is most famous for his work on the history of Alexander the Great.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Johann Gustav Droysen ranks 54 out of 561. Before him are Aby Warburg, Henri Pirenne, Ernst Gombrich, Joseph Justus Scaliger, Socrates of Constantinople, and Jared Diamond. After him are Marcus Velleius Paterculus, Geoffrey of Villehardouin, Callisthenes, Tzvetan Todorov, John Skylitzes, and Francesco Guicciardini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, Johann Gustav Droysen ranks 13. Before him are Patrice de MacMahon, Emir Abdelkader, Jefferson Davis, Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria, Gérard de Nerval, and Thomas Cook. After him are David Strauss, Maria Malibran, Mohammad Shah Qajar, Carl Spitzweg, Solomon Northup, and Wilhelm Weitling. Among people deceased in 1884, Johann Gustav Droysen ranks 7. Before him are Gregor Mendel, Bedřich Smetana, Maria Anna of Savoy, Elias Lönnrot, Marie Taglioni, and Marie Bashkirtseff. After him are Paul Morphy, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, Hermann Kolbe, Fanny Elssler, and Charles Adolphe Wurtz.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Johann Gustav Droysen ranks 143 out of 1,694. Before him are Konrad Emil Bloch (1912), Klaus von Klitzing (1943), Władysław Gomułka (1905), Erwin von Witzleben (1881), Anna Anderson (1896), and Zvi Zamir (1925). After him are Albrecht von Roon (1803), Edward Sapir (1884), Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (1860), Ferdinand Cohn (1828), Bronisław Komorowski (1952), and Bolesław III Wrymouth (1086).

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Among HISTORIANS In Poland

Among historians born in Poland, Johann Gustav Droysen ranks 1. After him are Benzion Netanyahu (1910), Richard Pipes (1923), Gottfried Achenwall (1719), Ernst Kantorowicz (1895), Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821), Otto von Gierke (1841), Karl Otfried Müller (1797), Walter Laqueur (1921), Zeev Sternhell (1935), Heinrich Graetz (1817), and Israel Gutman (1923).

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