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Kurt Aland

1915 - 1994

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Kurt Aland (28 March 1915 – 13 April 1994) was a German theologian and biblical scholar who specialized in New Testament textual criticism. He founded the Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung (Institute for New Testament Textual Research) in Münster and served as its first director from 1959 to 1983. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kurt Aland has received more than 96,502 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Kurt Aland is the 290th most popular historian (down from 215th in 2019), the 3,592nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,000th in 2019) and the 38th most popular German Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Kurt Aland ranks 290 out of 339. Before him are Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius, İbrahim Peçevi, Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Gerda Lerner, Heinrich Zimmer, and İlber Ortaylı. After him are Paul Kennedy, Edwin O. Reischauer, Jerónimo Zurita y Castro, Donald Kagan, Drew Gilpin Faust, and Fernão Lopes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Kurt Aland ranks 154. Before him are Maxime Rodinson, Antonio Innocenti, Kenneth Arnold, Harry Saltzman, Henner Henkel, and Sargent Shriver. After him are Gozo Shioda, Amedeo Biavati, Derek Prince, Regina Ghazaryan, Alan Lomax, and Leigh Brackett. Among people deceased in 1994, Kurt Aland ranks 187. Before him are Givi Chokheli, John Osborne, Luis Vargas Peña, Albert Shesternyov, Harry Saltzman, and Arnold Badjou. After him are Robert Rozhdestvensky, Gozo Shioda, Phoumi Vongvichit, Jim Brown, Carmen McRae, and Paul Xuereb.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Kurt Aland ranks 3,592 out of 6,142. Before him are Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg (1776), Princess Augusta of Saxe-Meiningen (1843), Johann Adolf II, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1685), Dorothea of Anhalt-Zerbst (1607), Wolfgang Rihm (1952), and Fritz Buchloh (1909). After him are Albert Betz (1885), Jürgen Ehlers (1929), Carl Ludwig Koch (1778), Erich Ollenhauer (1901), Charles, Prince of Nassau-Usingen (1712), and Adam Lonicer (1528).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Kurt Aland ranks 38. Before him are Max Jakob Friedländer (1867), Walter Burkert (1931), Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim (1701), Ubbo Emmius (1547), Gerhard Friedrich Müller (1705), and Heinrich Zimmer (1890). After him are Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (1752), Moritz Cantor (1829), Hermann Conring (1606), Georg Gottfried Gervinus (1805), Heinrich Gelzer (1847), and Gerhard Ritter (1888).

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