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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lev Gumilyov has received more than 234,949 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Lev Gumilyov is the 78th most popular historian (up from 89th in 2019), the 339th most popular biography from Russia (up from 443rd in 2019) and the most popular Russian Historian.

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  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.53

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Lev Gumilyov ranks 78 out of 561. Before him are Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Joannes Zonaras, Movses Khorenatsi, Justin, Eutropius, and Ephorus. After him are Nicolaus of Damascus, Carlo Ginzburg, Donna Haraway, Flavio Biondo, Al-Maqrizi, and Georges Duby.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Lev Gumilyov ranks 51. Before him are George Emil Palade, Julius Axelrod, Otto Kretschmer, Ghazi of Iraq, Minoru Yamasaki, and Patrick White. After him are Sonja Henie, Gordon Parks, Cornel Wilde, Don Siegel, John Payne, and Elsa Morante. Among people deceased in 1992, Lev Gumilyov ranks 35. Before him are Karl Carstens, James E. Webb, Günther Anders, Kaysone Phomvihane, John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, and Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia. After him are César Manrique, Denny Hulme, Samuel Reshevsky, H. L. A. Hart, Sam Walton, and Mohamed Boudiaf.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lev Gumilyov ranks 339 out of 3,761. Before him are Svetlana Savitskaya (1948), Mikhail Khodorkovsky (1963), Alexander Griboyedov (1795), Vasily Blokhin (1895), Valeri Polyakov (1942), and Nikolay Karamzin (1766). After him are Tamara Karsavina (1885), Andriyan Nikolayev (1929), Genndy Tartakovsky (1970), Anatoly Sobchak (1937), Anna Dostoevskaya (1846), and The French Angel (1903).

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Among HISTORIANS In Russia

Among historians born in Russia, Lev Gumilyov ranks 1. After him are George Ostrogorsky (1902), Vasily Bartold (1869), Vladimir Minorsky (1877), Alexander Vasiliev (1867), Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841), Alexander Kazhdan (1922), Léon Poliakov (1910), Mikhail Pogodin (1800), Jacob Theodor Klein (1685), Mikhail Artamonov (1898), and Boris Rybakov (1908).

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