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Max Jakobson

1923 - 2013

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Max Jakobson (September 30, 1923 – March 9, 2013) was a Finnish diplomat and journalist of Finnish-Jewish descent. Jakobson was an instrumental figure in shaping Finland's policy of neutrality during the Cold War. Max Jakobson was born in 1923 in Viipuri, Finland (now Vyborg, Russia), as son of Finnish-Jewish tailor Leo Jakobsson and his ethnic Finnish wife Helmi (née Virtanen). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Jakobson has received more than 51,725 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Max Jakobson is the 66th most popular diplomat (down from 64th in 2019), the 1,824th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,755th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Russian Diplomat.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Max Jakobson ranks 66 out of 90. Before him are Adlai Stevenson II, Joseph Grew, Edward M. House, Filippo Grandi, Vatslav Vorovsky, and Yasushi Akashi. After him are J. Christopher Stevens, Roberto Azevêdo, Bajrakitiyabha, Seán Lester, Richard Armitage, and Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Max Jakobson ranks 324. Before him are Gösta Löfgren, Jaroslav Pelikan, Norman Smith, Harold Gould, Bülent Eken, and Eugénio de Andrade. After him are Alfredo Nobre da Costa, Emilio Rodríguez, Carlo Pavesi, Hrant Shahinyan, Paula Fox, and Shlomo Hillel. Among people deceased in 2013, Max Jakobson ranks 324. Before him are Boris Vasilyev, Allal Benkassou, Imants Ziedonis, Bert Stern, Józef Kowalski, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. After him are Ba Mamadou Mbaré, Ottavio Missoni, Phil Ramone, Marshall Berman, Olga Aroseva, and Olena Chekan.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Max Jakobson ranks 1,824 out of 3,761. Before him are Isabella Bashmakova (1921), Fyodor Bondarchuk (1967), Karandash (1901), John Kay (1944), Anatoly Mikhaylov (1936), and Leonid Kharitonov (1933). After him are Georg Schnéevoigt (1872), Alexander Tikhonov (1947), Natalya Krachkovskaya (1938), Natalia Bekhtereva (1924), Gennady Voronov (1910), and Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann (1861).

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Among DIPLOMATS In Russia

Among diplomats born in Russia, Max Jakobson ranks 4. Before him are Alexandra Kollontai (1872), Viktor Chernomyrdin (1938), and Vatslav Vorovsky (1871). After him are Vasily Nebenzya (1962).

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