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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 1,860,821 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Pulitzer is the 6th most popular journalist (down from 5th in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 32nd 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 127Before him are Robert Capa, Richard Sorge, Oriana Fallaci, François-Noël Babeuf, and Gianni Rodari. After him are Gerda Taro, Anna Politkovskaya, Sebastião Salgado, Julian Assange, John Reed, and Dorothea Lange.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Joseph Pulitzer ranks 9Before him are Paul von Hindenburg, Bram Stoker, Maria Feodorovna, Otto Wallach, Jesse James, and Auguste Escoffier. After him are Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria, Georges Sorel, Annie Besant, Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, Jens Peter Jacobsen, and Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy. Among people deceased in 1911, Joseph Pulitzer ranks 6Before 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 Valentin Serov.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Joseph Pulitzer ranks 36 out of 866Before him are Sándor Kocsis (1929), Eugene Wigner (1902), Dennis Gabor (1900), Elizabeth of Luxembourg (1409), Edward Teller (1908), and Zoltán Kodály (1882). After him are Ágota Kristóf (1935), Viktor Orbán (1963), László Kubala (1927), Orestes (420), John Sigismund Zápolya (1540), and Imre Lakatos (1922).

Among JOURNALISTS In Hungary

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