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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 103,240 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Kurt Aland is the 296th most popular historian (down from 290th in 2019), the 3,581st most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,583rd in 2019) and the 37th most popular German Historian.

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  • 1.81

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Kurt Aland ranks 296 out of 561. Before him are Vardan Areveltsi, Milan Šufflay, Peter Brown, Dudo of Saint-Quentin, Élisabeth Roudinesco, and Pierre Vidal-Naquet. After him are Filippo Baldinucci, Jean Delumeau, Stéphane Courtois, Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Lyubomir Miletich, and Wilhelm von Bode.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Kurt Aland ranks 134. Before him are John Tukey, Hans Christian Blech, Wilhelm Gliese, Zulfiya, Taheyya Kariokka, and Norman Wisdom. After him are Amedeo Biavati, Karl Leisner, Henner Henkel, Vladimir Zeldin, Saifuddin Azizi, and Franz Bartl. Among people deceased in 1994, Kurt Aland ranks 172. Before him are Mildred Natwick, Rossano Brazzi, John Osborne, Madeleine Renaud, Abdullah al-Sallal, and Patrick O'Neal. After him are Paul Grimault, Dmitri Ivanenko, Roy J. Plunkett, Albert Shesternyov, Givi Chokheli, and Anni Albers.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Kurt Aland ranks 3,581 out of 7,253. Before him are Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1674), Jürgen Ehlers (1929), Jurij Brězan (1916), Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler (1811), Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1704), and Wilfried Dietrich (1933). After him are Justus Jonas (1493), Moritz Wagner (1813), Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1866), Gerald Götting (1923), Ilse Steppat (1917), and Christian Schad (1894).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Kurt Aland ranks 37. Before him are Abraham Geiger (1810), Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729), Max Jakob Friedländer (1867), Philipp Spitta (1841), Ludwig von Pastor (1854), and Ubbo Emmius (1547). After him are Wilhelm von Bode (1845), Hermann Conring (1606), Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (1752), Friedrich Kittler (1943), Gerhard Friedrich Müller (1705), and Heinrich Gelzer (1847).

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