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Léon Poliakov

1910 - 1997

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Léon Poliakov (Russian: Лев Поляков; 25 November 1910, Saint Petersburg – 8 December 1997, Orsay) was a French historian who wrote extensively on the Holocaust and antisemitism and wrote The Aryan Myth. Born into a Russian Jewish family, Poliakov lived in Italy and Germany until he settled in France. He cofounded the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation, established to collate documentation on the persecution of Jews during World War II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Léon Poliakov has received more than 66,723 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Léon Poliakov is the 276th most popular historian, the 1,314th most popular biography from Russia and the 8th most popular Russian Historian.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Léon Poliakov ranks 276 out of 339. Before him are Alexander Kazhdan, Vardan Areveltsi, Ubbo Emmius, Emmanuel Todd, Natalie Zemon Davis, and Edward Granville Browne. After him are Gerhard Friedrich Müller, Gerald of Wales, Donald Keene, Leo Allatius, Maxime Rodinson, and John Keegan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Léon Poliakov ranks 176. Before him are Herminio Masantonio, Douglas Bader, Gunter d'Alquen, Edmund Leach, Marc Lawrence, and José María Guido. After him are Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Aldo Olivieri, Antal Szabó, Paul Sweezy, Erkki Aaltonen, and Cahit Arf. Among people deceased in 1997, Léon Poliakov ranks 150. Before him are Misael Pastrana Borrero, Robert H. Dicke, René Huyghe, Seni Pramoj, Salvador Artigas, and Josef Pieper. After him are Bengt Danielsson, Charles Hallahan, Georgy Shonin, Cahit Arf, Natallia Arsiennieva, and James Krüss.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Léon Poliakov ranks 1,314 out of 3,262. Before him are Yury Glazkov (1939), Pavel Fedotov (1815), Solomon Lefschetz (1884), Yuri Rytkheu (1930), Aleksey Pisemsky (1821), and Sergei Shtemenko (1907). After him are Alexander Kemurdzhian (1921), Vladimir Solovyov (1946), Evgraf Fedorov (1853), Leo Borchard (1899), Tetyana Yablonska (1917), and Nikolay Ogarev (1813).

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Among HISTORIANS In Russia

Among historians born in Russia, Léon Poliakov ranks 8. Before him are Lev Gumilyov (1912), Vasily Bartold (1869), Vladimir Minorsky (1877), Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841), Alexander Vasiliev (1867), and Alexander Kazhdan (1922). After him are Mikhail Pogodin (1800), Cyril Toumanoff (1913), Boris Rybakov (1908), Mikhail Artamonov (1898), Aron Gurevich (1924), and Boris Chicherin (1828).

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