SOCIOLOGIST

Norbert Elias

1897 - 1990

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Norbert Elias (German: [ˈnɔʁbɛʁt ʔeˈliːas]; 22 June 1897 – 1 August 1990) was a Jewish German sociologist who later became a British citizen. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Norbert Elias has received more than 390,395 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia. Norbert Elias is the 10th most popular sociologist, the 87th most popular biography from Poland (down from 74th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Sociologist.

Norbert Elias is most famous for his book, The Civilizing Process, which describes the development of manners and morals in Europe from the Middle Ages to the present.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.29

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Norbert Elias ranks 10 out of 79. Before him are Theodor W. Adorno, Robert K. Merton, Georg Simmel, Talcott Parsons, Erving Goffman, and Anthony Giddens. After him are Marcel Mauss, Ulrich Beck, Immanuel Wallerstein, Niklas Luhmann, Gabriel Tarde, and Karl Mannheim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Norbert Elias ranks 16. Before him are Paavo Nurmi, Wilhelm Reich, Lucky Luciano, Georges Bataille, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, and Louis Aragon. After him are Ferenc Szálasi, Soong Mei-ling, Gordon Allport, Tadeusz Reichstein, Frank Capra, and Kurt Schuschnigg. Among people deceased in 1990, Norbert Elias ranks 13. Before him are Alberto Moravia, Ava Gardner, B. F. Skinner, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Paulette Goddard, and Sarah Vaughan. After him are Lê Đức Thọ, Sergei Parajanov, Pavel Cherenkov, Yun Posun, Miguel Muñoz, and John Bowlby.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Norbert Elias ranks 87 out of 1,694. Before him are Catherine Jagiellon (1526), Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (1761), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Carl Menger (1840), Robert Luther (1822), and Friedrich Bergius (1884). After him are Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898), Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833), Benoit Mandelbrot (1924), Anton Denikin (1872), Johannes Hevelius (1611), and Egon Krenz (1937).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In Poland

Among sociologists born in Poland, Norbert Elias ranks 1. After him are Ulrich Beck (1944), Ludwig Gumplowicz (1838), Shmuel Eisenstadt (1923), and Grażyna Gęsicka (1951).

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