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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 116,573 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Michael Rostovtzeff is the 113th most popular historian (up from 128th in 2019), the 217th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 253rd in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Michael Rostovtzeff ranks 113 out of 339Before him are Eunapius, Cangjie, Vasily Bartold, Leo the Deacon, Henry Thomas Buckle, and Doukas. After him are Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, C. Northcote Parkinson, Peter Burke, Richard Sennett, Golo Mann, and François Furet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Michael Rostovtzeff ranks 50Before him are Alexander Berkman, Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria, Oscar Straus, Gustav Landauer, Leopold Godowsky, and Marianne Weber. After him are Princess Henriette of Belgium, Vladimir Purishkevich, Helge von Koch, Florent Schmitt, Vítězslav Novák, and Alexandre Benois. Among people deceased in 1952, Michael Rostovtzeff ranks 45Before him are Albert, 8th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Otto Dietrich, Pedro Lascuráin, Jigme Wangchuck, Kurt Schumacher, and William Fox. After him are Efim Bogoljubov, Luigi Fagioli, Hans Kramers, Princess Hilda of Nassau, Viktor Chernov, and Louise d'Orléans.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Michael Rostovtzeff ranks 217 out of 1,083Before him are Petro Doroshenko (1627), Mykola Lysenko (1842), Nathan Milstein (1902), Stephen Timoshenko (1878), Samuel Noah Kramer (1897), and Cyril Genik (1857). After him are Alexander Vertinsky (1889), Viktor Bunyakovsky (1804), Eugen Ehrlich (1862), Igor Markevitch (1912), Efim Bogoljubov (1889), and Pavel Sudoplatov (1907).

Among HISTORIANS In Ukraine

Among historians born in Ukraine, Michael Rostovtzeff ranks 1