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Otto von Gierke

1841 - 1921

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Otto Friedrich von Gierke, born Otto Friedrich Gierke (11 January 1841 – 10 October 1921) was a German legal scholar and historian. He is considered today as one of the most influential and important legal scholars of the 19th and 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto von Gierke has received more than 65,892 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Otto von Gierke is the 186th most popular historian (down from 143rd in 2019), the 537th most popular biography from Poland (down from 455th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Polish Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Otto von Gierke ranks 186 out of 561. Before him are Martino Martini, Antony Beevor, Simon Dubnow, Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, Ferdinand Gregorovius, and Khvandamir. After him are Gustav Hugo, Roger Chartier, Karl Lamprecht, Adémar de Chabannes, Philistus, and Slobodan Jovanović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Otto von Gierke ranks 39. Before him are Joseph Henry Blackburne, Giovanni Sgambati, Ybyrai Altynsarin, Sam Loyd, Eugenius Warming, and Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg. After him are Luigi Luzzatti, Prudente de Morais, Charles J. Guiteau, Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales, Wilfrid Laurier, and François-Alphonse Forel. Among people deceased in 1921, Otto von Gierke ranks 59. Before him are Adolf von Hildebrand, Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg, Said Halim Pasha, Émile Boutroux, Pauline von Metternich, and Charles Joseph Bonaparte. After him are Agenor Maria Gołuchowski, Joel Asaph Allen, Christina Nilsson, Émile Combes, Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, and Fyodor Sergeyev.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Otto von Gierke ranks 537 out of 1,694. Before him are Count Kasimir Felix Badeni (1846), Klaus Roth (1925), Moses Isserles (1520), Joseph Serchuk (1919), Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821), and Franz Waxman (1906). After him are Duchess Amelia of Württemberg (1799), Oskar Kummetz (1891), Jadwiga of Kalisz (1266), Bolesław the Pious (1225), Richard Courant (1888), and Peter Yorck von Wartenburg (1904).

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Among HISTORIANS In Poland

Among historians born in Poland, Otto von Gierke ranks 7. Before him are Johann Gustav Droysen (1808), Benzion Netanyahu (1910), Richard Pipes (1923), Gottfried Achenwall (1719), Ernst Kantorowicz (1895), and Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821). After him are Karl Otfried Müller (1797), Walter Laqueur (1921), Zeev Sternhell (1935), Heinrich Graetz (1817), Israel Gutman (1923), and Jacob Talmon (1916).

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