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Oliver Grau

1965 - Today

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Oliver Grau (born 24 October 1965) is a German art historian and media theoretician with a focus on image science, modernity and media art as well as culture of the 19th century and Italian art of the Renaissance. Main Areas of Research are: Digital Art, Media Art History, immersion, digital humanities, documentation and conservation strategies of born-digital media art. He is founder and director of the Archive for Digital Art (1998) and founder and head of the Society for MediaArtHistories and its biennial conference series (since 2004). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oliver Grau has received more than 56,261 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Oliver Grau is the 442nd most popular historian (down from 337th in 2019), the 4,978th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,493rd in 2019) and the 53rd most popular German Historian.

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  • 16

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  • 8.31

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  • 1.35

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Oliver Grau ranks 442 out of 339. Before him are Griselda Pollock, Wendy Beckett, Mary Ritter Beard, Jan Morris, Andreas Maislinger, and Rainer Zitelmann. After him are James H. Billington, Richard G. Hovannisian, Charles Oman, Francis Parkman, David Rohl, and Gregory Areshian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Oliver Grau ranks 440. Before him are Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain, Jessica Steen, Ramdev, Michal Šanda, Thomas Stangassinger, and Wakana Yamazaki. After him are Anna Chancellor, Fernanda Torres, Khristo Markov, Jasna Šekarić, David O'Hara, and Kiersten Warren.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Oliver Grau ranks 4,978 out of 6,142. Before him are Yvonne Catterfeld (1979), Ludwig Schick (1949), Wilfried Hannes (1957), Kati Wilhelm (1976), Caroline Link (1964), and Claudia Kohde-Kilsch (1963). After him are Karoline Herfurth (1984), André Lotterer (1981), Julian Weigl (1995), Lars Stindl (1988), Maxi Gnauck (1964), and Sandro Wagner (1987).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Oliver Grau ranks 53. Before him are Heinrich Ewald (1803), Peter Gay (1923), Nikolaus Pevsner (1902), Walter Jens (1923), Hermann Oldenberg (1854), and Rainer Zitelmann (1957). After him are Gerhard Weinberg (1928).

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