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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 402,419 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Nikolaus Pevsner is the 371st most popular historian (down from 293rd in 2019), the 4,196th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,784th in 2019) and the 49th most popular German Historian.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Nikolaus Pevsner ranks 371 out of 339. Before him are Ehsan Yarshater, Mikheil Tsereteli, Boris Chicherin, Sirarpie Der Nersessian, Martin Gilbert, and Craterus. After him are Niall Ferguson, H. A. R. Gibb, Daniel Pipes, Constantine Paparrigopoulos, Jonathan Riley-Smith, and Anton Heinrich Springer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Nikolaus Pevsner ranks 236. Before him are Felisberto Hernández, Bronisław Kaper, Skip James, Tor Johnson, Leopold Lindtberg, and Kustaa Pihlajamäki. After him are Mario Magnozzi, Toivo Loukola, Josef Silný, Georges Lacombe, Afife Jale, and Edward Condon. Among people deceased in 1983, Nikolaus Pevsner ranks 177. Before him are Bronisław Kaper, Karandash, Miquel Crusafont i Pairó, Fyodor Abramov, Jacqueline Logan, and Luís Mesquita de Oliveira. After him are Jaime Lazcano, Anton Buttigieg, José Bergamín, George Hodgson, Buster Crabbe, and George O. Abell.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Nikolaus Pevsner ranks 4,196 out of 6,142. Before him are Marika Kilius (1943), Angelique Kerber (1988), Duchess Gustave Caroline of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1694), E. Marlitt (1825), Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg (1839), and Philipp Plein (1978). After him are Anton Reichenow (1847), Wilhelm Hofmeister (1824), Helmut Dietl (1944), Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia (1976), Kai Havertz (1999), and Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar (1786).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Nikolaus Pevsner ranks 49. Before him are Heinrich Gelzer (1847), Gerhard Ritter (1888), Franz Babinger (1891), Joseph Hergenröther (1824), Heinrich Ewald (1803), and Peter Gay (1923). After him are Walter Jens (1923), Hermann Oldenberg (1854), Rainer Zitelmann (1957), Oliver Grau (1965), and Gerhard Weinberg (1928).

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