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Joseph Pulitzer

1847 - 1911

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Joseph Pulitzer ( PUUL-it-sər; born Pulitzer József, Hungarian: [ˈpulit͡sɛr ˈjoːʒɛf]; April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American politician and newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Pulitzer has received more than 1,944,725 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Joseph Pulitzer is the 6th most popular journalist, the 52nd most popular biography from Hungary (down from 36th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Hungarian Journalist.

Joseph Pulitzer was a Hungarian-born American newspaper publisher. He is most famous for founding the Pulitzer Prize, which is given annually to honor excellence in journalism.

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Joseph Pulitzer ranks 6 out of 196. Before him are Robert Capa, Richard Sorge, Oriana Fallaci, François-Noël Babeuf, and Gianni Rodari. After him are Sebastião Salgado, Gerda Taro, Anna Politkovskaya, Robert Guérin, Julian Assange, and Dorothea Lange.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Joseph Pulitzer ranks 9. Before him are Paul von Hindenburg, Bram Stoker, Otto Wallach, Maria Feodorovna, Jesse James, and Auguste Escoffier. After him are Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria, Georges Sorel, Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, Max Liebermann, Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, and Annie Besant. Among people deceased in 1911, Joseph Pulitzer ranks 6. Before him are Gustav Mahler, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Wilhelm Dilthey, Francis Galton, and Alfred Binet. After him are Pyotr Stolypin, Paul Lafargue, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Georg Jellinek, Emilio Salgari, and Maria Pia of Savoy.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Joseph Pulitzer ranks 52 out of 1,077. Before him are László Kubala (1927), Imre Lakatos (1922), Flórián Albert (1941), Lajos Kossuth (1802), Béla III of Hungary (1148), and Emmerich Kálmán (1882). After him are Emeric Thököly (1657), Stephen V of Hungary (1239), Emeric, King of Hungary (1174), Paul Erdős (1913), Anne of Bohemia and Hungary (1503), and George de Hevesy (1885).

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Among JOURNALISTS In Hungary

Among journalists born in Hungary, Joseph Pulitzer ranks 2. Before him are Robert Capa (1913).

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