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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 104,809 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Klausner is the 214th most popular historian, the 81st most popular biography from Lithuania and the 2nd most popular Lithuanian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Joseph Klausner ranks 214 out of 339Before him are Ahmad Kasravi, Philochorus, Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi, William of Malmesbury, Claude Cahen, and Christian Gottlob Heyne. After him are Michael Glykas, Slobodan Jovanović, Reinhart Dozy, George Buchanan, Karl Krumbacher, and Georges Lefebvre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Joseph Klausner ranks 94Before him are André-Louis Debierne, Joaquín Torres-García, Krste Misirkov, Laura Montoya, Ricardo Flores Magón, and Charles-Louis Philippe. After him are Nicola Canali, Georges Lefebvre, Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, Nicolae Rădescu, Clemens von Pirquet, and Wincenty Witos. Among people deceased in 1958, Joseph Klausner ranks 78Before him are Varvara Stepanova, Princess Nadezhda of Bulgaria, Vítězslav Nezval, Robert Donat, Henry Kuttner, and Tommy Taylor. After him are Slobodan Jovanović, John Boland, Vittorio Ambrosio, Frédéric François-Marsal, Christabel Pankhurst, and Salama Moussa.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Joseph Klausner ranks 81 out of 287Before him are Bruno Abakanowicz (1852), Maciej Sulkiewicz (1865), Yitzhak Arad (1926), Tomas Venclova (1937), Rolandas Paksas (1956), and Al Jolson (1886). After him are Yehuda Pen (1854), Antanas Sniečkus (1903), Klara Zamenhof (1863), Ingrida Šimonytė (1974), Vydūnas (1868), and Andrius Kubilius (1956).

Among HISTORIANS In Lithuania

Among historians born in Lithuania, Joseph Klausner ranks 2Before him are Yitzhak Arad (1926). After him are Bernard Berenson (1865) and Donald Kagan (1932).