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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 60,389 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Otto von Gierke is the 143rd most popular historian (down from 142nd in 2019), the 455th most popular biography from Poland (up from 464th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Historian.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Otto von Gierke ranks 143 out of 339. Before him are Heinrich von Treitschke, Ian Kershaw, Ernst Kantorowicz, Charles Diehl, Howard Zinn, and Vladimir Minorsky. After him are Adémar de Chabannes, Matthew of Edessa, Philostorgius, Ibn Hibban, Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, and Marin Barleti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Otto von Gierke ranks 32. Before him are Julius von Payer, Annie Chapman, Sam Loyd, Eliza Orzeszkowa, Hermann Carl Vogel, and Ybyrai Altynsarin. After him are Wilfrid Laurier, Joseph Henry Blackburne, Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev, Prudente de Morais, Philipp Mainländer, and Princess Marie of the Netherlands. Among people deceased in 1921, Otto von Gierke ranks 53. Before him are Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg, Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi, Émile Boutroux, Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Annie Edson Taylor, and Juhani Aho. After him are Adolf von Hildebrand, Jean-Paul Laurens, Joel Asaph Allen, Said Halim Pasha, Agenor Maria Gołuchowski, and Hans Hartwig von Beseler.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Otto von Gierke ranks 455 out of 1,454. Before him are Helmut Lent (1918), Jerzy Stuhr (1947), Józef Beck (1894), Georg Heym (1887), Max Factor (1877), and Leszek II the Black (1241). After him are Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann (1818), Stanisław Koniecpolski (1591), Max Simon (1899), Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868), Theodor Kaluza (1885), and Zvi Zamir (1925).

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Among HISTORIANS In Poland

Among historians born in Poland, Otto von Gierke ranks 4. Before him are Johann Gustav Droysen (1808), Richard Pipes (1923), and Ernst Kantorowicz (1895). After him are Gottfried Achenwall (1719), Benzion Netanyahu (1910), Heinrich Graetz (1817), Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821), Walter Laqueur (1921), Zeev Sternhell (1935), Karl Otfried Müller (1797), and Jacob Talmon (1916).

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