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Nikolaus Pevsner

1902 - 1983

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Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England (1951–74). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolaus Pevsner has received more than 427,981 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Nikolaus Pevsner is the 472nd most popular historian (down from 371st in 2019), the 4,953rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,183rd in 2019) and the 57th most popular German Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Nikolaus Pevsner ranks 472 out of 561. Before him are Charles A. Beard, Benjamin Mazar, Djibril Tamsir Niane, Zhao Rukuo, Timofey Granovsky, and Charles Homer Haskins. After him are Rudolph Rummel, Anvar Chingizoglu, Catharine Macaulay, Sara Ashurbeyli, Christopher Browning, and Samuel Eliot Morison.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Nikolaus Pevsner ranks 267. Before him are Curt Siodmak, Daniel Kinsey, Arno Arthur Wachmann, Jaime Torres Bodet, Will Geer, and Skip James. After him are Bronisław Kaper, Veli Saarinen, Paavo Yrjölä, Russinho, Margaret Woodbridge, and Isidoro Sota. Among people deceased in 1983, Nikolaus Pevsner ranks 211. Before him are Jacqueline Logan, Sabin Carr, Claude Papi, Constantino Urbieta Sosa, Richard Llewellyn, and Carlo Orlandi. After him are Bronisław Kaper, Pentti Saarikoski, Georges Spénale, Christopher George, Anthony van Hoboken, and Paul Fix.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Nikolaus Pevsner ranks 4,953 out of 7,253. Before him are Hanns Seidel (1901), Albert Ladenburg (1842), Philipp Plein (1978), Thomas Struth (1954), Heinrich Moritz Willkomm (1821), and Adolf Bartels (1862). After him are Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (1930), Carl Hindenburg (1741), Gustav Lindau (1866), Martin Wuttke (1962), Nathan Zach (1930), and Willibald Kreß (1906).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Nikolaus Pevsner ranks 57. Before him are Gerhard Ritter (1888), Heinrich Ewald (1803), Martin Noth (1902), Joseph Hergenröther (1824), Eberhard Jäckel (1929), and Hermann Oldenberg (1854). After him are Walter Jens (1923), Rainer Zitelmann (1957), Oliver Grau (1965), and Gerhard Weinberg (1928).

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