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Joseph Klausner

1874 - 1958

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Joseph Gedaliah Klausner (Hebrew: יוסף גדליה קלוזנר; 20 August 1874 – 27 October 1958), was a Lithuanian-born Israeli historian and professor of Hebrew literature. He was the chief redactor of the Encyclopedia Hebraica. He was a candidate for president in the first Israeli presidential election in 1949, losing to Chaim Weizmann. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Klausner has received more than 112,097 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Joseph Klausner is the 177th most popular historian (up from 214th in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 79th in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Joseph Klausner ranks 177 out of 561. Before him are Karl Krumbacher, Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, Howard Zinn, Charles Diehl, Anthony Blunt, and Michael Glykas. After him are Pei Songzhi, Steven Runciman, Martino Martini, Antony Beevor, Simon Dubnow, and Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Joseph Klausner ranks 81. Before him are Serge Koussevitzky, István Bethlen, William Lyon Mackenzie King, Lina Cavalieri, Laura Montoya, and Clemens von Pirquet. After him are Pierre Souvestre, Gustave Whitehead, Rosa Albach-Retty, Nikolai Korotkov, Frédéric François-Marsal, and Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria. Among people deceased in 1958, Joseph Klausner ranks 65. Before him are Grigory Petrovsky, Peter Collins, Pierre-Étienne Flandin, Haykanoush Danielyan, Ivan Yefimovich Petrov, and Princess Nadezhda of Bulgaria. After him are Vítězslav Nezval, Luigi Musso, Christabel Pankhurst, Frédéric François-Marsal, Ernest Jones, and Slobodan Jovanović.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Joseph Klausner ranks 63 out of 328. Before him are Jerzy Radziwiłł (1556), Simon Dach (1605), Aharon Barak (1936), Antoni Radziwiłł (1775), Bruno Abakanowicz (1852), and Audrys Bačkis (1937). After him are Antanas Merkys (1887), Laurence Harvey (1928), Donatas Banionis (1924), Kazimira Prunskienė (1943), Ingrida Šimonytė (1974), and Hermann Sudermann (1857).

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Among HISTORIANS In Lithuania

Among historians born in Lithuania, Joseph Klausner ranks 1. After him are Bernard Berenson (1865), Yitzhak Arad (1926), and Donald Kagan (1932).

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