PHYSICIAN

Josef Mengele

1911 - 1979

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Josef Rudolf Mengele (German: [ˈjoːzɛf ˈmɛŋələ] ; 16 March 1911 – 7 February 1979) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician during World War II at the Russian front and then at Auschwitz during the Holocaust, where he was nicknamed the "Angel of Death" (German: Todesengel). He performed deadly experiments on prisoners at the Auschwitz II (Birkenau) concentration camp, where he was a member of the team of doctors who selected victims to be murdered in the gas chambers, and was one of the doctors who administered the gas. Before the war, Mengele received doctorates in anthropology and medicine, and began a career as a researcher. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josef Mengele has received more than 21,097,982 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Josef Mengele is the 7th most popular physician (down from 6th in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 40th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Physician.

Josef Mengele was a German SS officer and physician in Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. He is most famous for performing human experiments on prisoners and for his role in the selection of prisoners to be sent to the gas chambers.

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  • 68

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.49

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Josef Mengele ranks 7 out of 726. Before him are Hippocrates, Galen, Paracelsus, Florence Nightingale, Robert Koch, and Basil of Caesarea. After him are Edward Jenner, L. L. Zamenhof, Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi, Andreas Vesalius, Albert Schweitzer, and William Harvey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Josef Mengele ranks 2. Before him is Ronald Reagan. After him are Konstantin Chernenko, Georges Pompidou, Baba Vanga, Naguib Mahfouz, Władysław Szpilman, Emil Cioran, Juan Manuel Fangio, Võ Nguyên Giáp, Todor Zhivkov, and William Golding. Among people deceased in 1979, Josef Mengele ranks 1. After him are Park Chung-hee, John Wayne, Giuseppe Meazza, Talcott Parsons, Herbert Marcuse, Nino Rota, Jean Renoir, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Jean Monnet, Sándor Kocsis, and Mika Waltari.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Josef Mengele ranks 53 out of 7,253. Before him are Marlene Dietrich (1901), Adolf Eichmann (1906), Felix Mendelssohn (1809), Heinrich Heine (1797), Bertolt Brecht (1898), and Hannah Arendt (1906). After him are Hildegard of Bingen (1098), Georg Ohm (1789), William I, German Emperor (1797), Klemens von Metternich (1773), Joseph Goebbels (1897), and Erich Maria Remarque (1898).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Josef Mengele ranks 2. Before him are Robert Koch (1843). After him are Alois Alzheimer (1864), Georgius Agricola (1494), Emil Kraepelin (1856), Samuel Hahnemann (1755), Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883), Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884), Gerhard Domagk (1895), Otto Loewi (1873), Theodor Morell (1886), and Werner Forssmann (1904).

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