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Lev Gumilyov

1912 - 1992

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Lev Nikolayevich Gumilev (also Gumilyov; Russian: Лев Никола́евич Гумилёв; 1 October [O.S. 18 September] 1912 – 15 June 1992) was a Soviet and Russian historian, ethnologist, anthropologist and translator. He had a reputation for his highly unorthodox theories of ethnogenesis and historiosophy. He was an exponent of Eurasianism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lev Gumilyov has received more than 229,019 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Lev Gumilyov is the 89th most popular historian (up from 508th in 2019), the 444th most popular biography from Russia (up from 452nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Lev Gumilyov ranks 89 out of 339Before him are Georges Duby, Flavio Biondo, George Ostrogorsky, Shoqan Walikhanov, Al-Maqrizi, and Sozomen. After him are Alois Riegl, Tyrannius Rufinus, Andrea Alciato, Sextus Julius Africanus, Al-Waqidi, and Hieronymus Wolf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Lev Gumilyov ranks 66Before him are Isser Harel, Salvador Luria, José Ferrer, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Hermann Graf, and Duško Popov. After him are Herbert C. Brown, Pat Nixon, Julia Child, Ivan Yakubovsky, Dinmukhamed Kunaev, and Abbé Pierre. Among people deceased in 1992, Lev Gumilyov ranks 44Before him are César Manrique, Albert Pierrepoint, Peter D. Mitchell, Joan Fuster, John Sturges, and José Ferrer. After him are Denholm Elliott, Wanda Rutkiewicz, Lella Lombardi, James Stirling, Arletty, and Jean-Claude Pascal.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lev Gumilyov ranks 444 out of 3,262Before him are Alexander Ostrovsky (1823), Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia (1825), Marianne von Werefkin (1860), False Dmitry II (1600), Nikolay Bobrikov (1839), and Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia (1798). After him are Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817), Valentin Pavlov (1937), Fyodor Ushakov (1745), Sergei Taneyev (1856), Semyon Dezhnev (1605), and Nikolay Semyonov (1896).

Among HISTORIANS In Russia

Among historians born in Russia, Lev Gumilyov ranks 2Before him are George Ostrogorsky (1902). After him are Vasily Bartold (1869), Vladimir Minorsky (1877), Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841), Alexander Vasiliev (1867), Alexander Kazhdan (1922), Léon Poliakov (1910), Mikhail Pogodin (1800), Cyril Toumanoff (1913), Boris Rybakov (1908), and Mikhail Artamonov (1898).