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Michael Rostovtzeff

1870 - 1952

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Mikhail Ivanovich Rostovtzeff, or Rostovtsev (Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Росто́вцев; November 10 [O.S. October 29] 1870 – October 20, 1952), was a Russian historian whose career straddled the 19th and 20th centuries and who produced important works on ancient Roman and Greek history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Rostovtzeff has received more than 126,443 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Michael Rostovtzeff is the 121st most popular historian (down from 113th in 2019), the 239th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 214th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Michael Rostovtzeff ranks 121 out of 561. Before him are Henry Thomas Buckle, Richard Pipes, Leo the Deacon, Hayden White, Ibn Hibban, and Arnold Hauser. After him are Agatharchides, Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Thomas Babington Macaulay, C. Northcote Parkinson, Heinrich von Treitschke, and Afet İnan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Michael Rostovtzeff ranks 50. Before him are Lord Alfred Douglas, Marianne Weber, Bernard Baruch, Gustav Landauer, Archduchess Louise of Austria, and Kitaro Nishida. After him are Ignacio Zuloaga, Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria, Vítězslav Novák, Alexandre Benois, and Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann. Among people deceased in 1952, Michael Rostovtzeff ranks 44. Before him are Hans Kramers, Albert, 8th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Alfred Einstein, Pedro Lascuráin, Archduke Maximilian Eugen of Austria, and Carlo Sforza. After him are Emilie Louise Flöge, Viktor Chernov, Hiranuma Kiichirō, William Fox, Luigi Fagioli, and Solomiya Krushelnytska.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Michael Rostovtzeff ranks 239 out of 1,365. Before him are Alexander Rutskoy (1947), Mikhail Eisenstein (1867), Samuel Noah Kramer (1897), Ivan Bohun (1618), Lyudmila Gurchenko (1935), and Natan Sharansky (1948). After him are Alexander Siloti (1863), Abram Ioffe (1880), Arseny Tarkovsky (1907), Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876), Oleksii Reznikov (1966), and Petro Doroshenko (1627).

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Among HISTORIANS In Ukraine

Among historians born in Ukraine, Michael Rostovtzeff ranks 1. After him are Iryna Melnykova (1918), Lidiya Ponomarenko (1922), and Volodymyr Ivanovych Barvinok (1879).

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