1896 - 1988
Karl August Wittfogel (6 September 1896 – 25 May 1988) was a German-American playwright, historian, and sinologist. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl August Wittfogel has received more than 130,585 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Karl August Wittfogel is the 5,152nd most popular politician (down from 5,022nd in 2019), the 1,440th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,433rd in 2019) and the 431st most popular German Politician.
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Among politicians, Karl August Wittfogel ranks 5,152 out of 15,577. Before him are Philip II Philoromaeus, Luis of Spain, Count of Chinchón, Khutughtu Khan Kusala, Lucius Julius Caesar, Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, and Prince Henry of Prussia. After him are Emperor Min of Jin, Prince Oskar of Prussia, Desiderata of the Lombards, Markos Vafeiadis, Hussein-Ali Montazeri, and Lucius Aemilius Paullus.
50 BC - 50 BC
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 5,146
1727 - 1785
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 5,147
1300 - 1329
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 5,148
110 BC - 40 BC
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 5,149
1797 - 1881
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 5,150
1726 - 1802
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 5,151
1896 - 1988
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 5,152
300 - 318
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 5,153
1888 - 1958
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 5,154
754 - 776
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 5,155
1906 - 1992
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 5,156
1922 - 2009
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 5,157
300 BC - 216 BC
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 5,158
Among people born in 1896, Karl August Wittfogel ranks 66. Before him are Aleksei Antonov, Friedrich Hund, Henri de Lubac, Soghomon Tehlirian, Michael Balint, and Kenji Miyazawa. After him are Kazimierz Kuratowski, Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Morarji Desai, Heo Jeong, Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff, and Boris Skossyreff. Among people deceased in 1988, Karl August Wittfogel ranks 47. Before him are Carmen Polo, 1st Lady of Meirás, Yevgeny Mravinsky, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Isamu Noguchi, John Carradine, and Dino Grandi. After him are Giuseppe Saragat, Willem Drees, Ana Aslan, Chico Mendes, Heo Jeong, and Trường Chinh.
1896 - 1962
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 60
1896 - 1997
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 61
1896 - 1991
HPI: 58.59
Rank: 62
1896 - 1960
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 63
1896 - 1970
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 64
1896 - 1933
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 65
1896 - 1988
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 66
1896 - 1980
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 67
1896 - 1967
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 68
1896 - 1995
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 69
1896 - 1988
HPI: 57.68
Rank: 70
1896 - 1944
HPI: 57.67
Rank: 71
1896 - 1989
HPI: 57.65
Rank: 72
1900 - 1988
HPI: 58.59
Rank: 41
1903 - 1988
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 42
1960 - 1988
HPI: 58.42
Rank: 43
1904 - 1988
HPI: 58.40
Rank: 44
1906 - 1988
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 45
1895 - 1988
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 46
1896 - 1988
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 47
1898 - 1988
HPI: 58.29
Rank: 48
1886 - 1988
HPI: 58.11
Rank: 49
1897 - 1988
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 50
1944 - 1988
HPI: 57.73
Rank: 51
1896 - 1988
HPI: 57.68
Rank: 52
1907 - 1988
HPI: 57.47
Rank: 53
Among people born in Germany, Karl August Wittfogel ranks 1,440 out of 6,142. Before him are Johann Schein (1586), Thomas Abbt (1738), Ernst Barkmann (1919), Hartmann Schedel (1440), Prince Frederick of the Netherlands (1797), and Prince Henry of Prussia (1726). After him are Ernest Mandel (1923), Prince Oskar of Prussia (1888), Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1896), Karin Dor (1938), Erika Mann (1905), and Hans Aumeier (1906).
1586 - 1630
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 1,434
1738 - 1766
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 1,435
1919 - 2009
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 1,436
1440 - 1514
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 1,437
1797 - 1881
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 1,438
1726 - 1802
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 1,439
1896 - 1988
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 1,440
1923 - 1995
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 1,441
1888 - 1958
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 1,442
1896 - 1967
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 1,443
1938 - 2017
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 1,444
1905 - 1969
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 1,445
1906 - 1948
HPI: 58.29
Rank: 1,446
Among politicians born in Germany, Karl August Wittfogel ranks 431. Before him are Elisabeth of the Palatinate (1618), Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria (1654), Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern (1890), Frederick II, Elector Palatine (1482), Prince Frederick of the Netherlands (1797), and Prince Henry of Prussia (1726). After him are Prince Oskar of Prussia (1888), Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1896), Hans Aumeier (1906), Franz, Duke of Bavaria (1933), Franz Gürtner (1881), and Georg Kerschensteiner (1854).
1618 - 1680
HPI: 58.39
Rank: 425
1654 - 1689
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 426
1890 - 1966
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 427
1482 - 1556
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 428
1797 - 1881
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 429
1726 - 1802
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 430
1896 - 1988
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 431
1888 - 1958
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 432
1896 - 1967
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 433
1906 - 1948
HPI: 58.29
Rank: 434
1933 - Present
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 435
1881 - 1941
HPI: 58.27
Rank: 436
1854 - 1932
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 437