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Julius Wellhausen

1844 - 1918

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Julius Wellhausen (17 May 1844 – 7 January 1918) was a German biblical scholar and orientalist. In the course of his career, his research interest moved from Old Testament research through Islamic studies to New Testament scholarship. Wellhausen contributed to the composition history of the Pentateuch/Torah and studied the formative period of Islam. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julius Wellhausen has received more than 255,001 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Julius Wellhausen is the 85th most popular historian (down from 79th in 2019), the 1,065th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,047th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Historian.

Julius Wellhausen is most famous for his documentary hypothesis, which argues that the Pentateuch was written by four different authors, and that the first five books of the Old Testament were written by a single author.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Julius Wellhausen ranks 85 out of 561. Before him are Nicolaus of Damascus, Carlo Ginzburg, Donna Haraway, Flavio Biondo, Al-Maqrizi, and Georges Duby. After him are Erich Auerbach, George Ostrogorsky, Al-Waqidi, Hermann Alexander Diels, Timaeus, and Yuval Noah Harari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Julius Wellhausen ranks 28. Before him are Friedrich Miescher, Ismail Qemali, Charles-Marie Widor, Karl Lueger, `Abdu'l-Bahá, and Abdur Rahman Khan. After him are Adolf Engler, Charles-Émile Reynaud, Sophia Tolstaya, Saitō Hajime, Thomas Eakins, and Henry J. Heinz. Among people deceased in 1918, Julius Wellhausen ranks 45. Before him are Eusebi Güell, Andrew Dickson White, Anna Dostoevskaya, Emil Jellinek, Stepan Shaumian, and Aleksandr Lyapunov. After him are Koloman Moser, Sai Baba of Shirdi, Ivan Cankar, John Bauer, César Ritz, and Daniel Burley Woolfall.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Julius Wellhausen ranks 1,065 out of 7,253. Before him are Anthony of Saxony (1755), Hermann Kolbe (1818), Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775), Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1757), Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg (1830), and Engelbert Humperdinck (1854). After him are Georg Kaiser (1878), Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1876), Oswald Pohl (1892), William Stern (1871), Karl Mack von Leiberich (1752), and Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1845).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Julius Wellhausen ranks 8. Before him are Leopold von Ranke (1795), Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779), Adam of Bremen (1100), Samuel von Pufendorf (1632), Erwin Panofsky (1892), and Aby Warburg (1866). After him are Erich Auerbach (1892), Hermann Alexander Diels (1848), Christoph Cellarius (1638), Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (1876), Reinhart Koselleck (1923), and Golo Mann (1909).

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