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Peter Gay

1923 - 2015

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Peter Joachim Gay (né Fröhlich; June 20, 1923 – May 12, 2015) was a German-American historian, educator, and author. He was a Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and former director of the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers (1997–2003). He received the American Historical Association's (AHA) Award for Scholarly Distinction in 2004. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Gay has received more than 301,381 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Peter Gay is the 358th most popular historian, the 4,241st most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,115th in 2019) and the 46th most popular German Historian.

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  • 300k

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  • 56.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Peter Gay ranks 358 out of 561. Before him are Jacob Talmon, Stanley G. Payne, Ernest Lavisse, Helene Ahrweiler, Henri Grégoire, and Marc Fumaroli. After him are Fritz Stern, Ehsan Yarshater, Géza Alföldy, Franz Babinger, Leo Allatius, and Francis Godwin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Peter Gay ranks 287. Before him are Jim Reeves, Bruno Zumino, Adolf Grünbaum, Isao Kimura, Ernesto Prinoth, and Lygia Fagundes Telles. After him are Anton-Günther, Duke of Oldenburg, N. T. Rama Rao, Geoff Duke, Paul Xuereb, Ladislav Fuks, and Sara Lidman. Among people deceased in 2015, Peter Gay ranks 259. Before him are Bülent Ulusu, Karl-Erik Palmér, Oleg Bryjak, Roberto Tucci, Veijo Meri, and Roger Rees. After him are Anna Kashfi, Claude Criquielion, Geoff Duke, Mary Ellen Mark, Florence Arthaud, and Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Peter Gay ranks 4,241 out of 7,253. Before him are Adolf Urban (1914), Ernst Herzfeld (1879), Herbert Achternbusch (1938), Franz Delitzsch (1813), Princess Marie of Nassau (1825), and Dorothee Sölle (1929). After him are Anton-Günther, Duke of Oldenburg (1923), Ernst Albrecht (1907), Ruth Westheimer (1928), Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald (1902), Gisela Arendt (1918), and Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient (1804).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Peter Gay ranks 46. Before him are Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (1752), Friedrich Kittler (1943), Gerhard Friedrich Müller (1705), Heinrich Gelzer (1847), Walter Burkert (1931), and Heinrich Zimmer (1890). After him are Franz Babinger (1891), Georg Gottfried Gervinus (1805), Heinrich von Sybel (1817), Gottfried Arnold (1665), Gerhard Ritter (1888), and Heinrich Ewald (1803).

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