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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 279,078 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Peter Gay is the 358th most popular historian (down from 269th in 2019), the 4,128th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,522nd in 2019) and the 48th most popular German Historian.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Peter Gay ranks 358 out of 339. Before him are Heinrich Ewald, Taner Akçam, Frances Yates, Boris Rybakov, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., and Patricia Crone. After him are Mikhail Artamonov, Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Américo Castro, G. M. Trevelyan, Andreas Alföldi, and Aron Gurevich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Peter Gay ranks 290. Before him are Eugenio Calabi, Hanna Maron, Mrinal Sen, James E. Gunn, Juan Acuña, and Jaroslav Pelikan. After him are Mother Angelica, Eduardo Lourenço, Louise Brough, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Roy Dotrice, and Gösta Löfgren. Among people deceased in 2015, Peter Gay ranks 279. Before him are Melissa Mathison, Kayahan, Claude Criquielion, Richard Bass, Roberto Tucci, and Patricia Crone. After him are Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Guru Josh, Ibrahim Biogradlić, Cilla Black, Oleg Bryjak, and Nigel Terry.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Peter Gay ranks 4,128 out of 6,142. Before him are Hanna Maron (1923), Max Raabe (1962), Susanne Lothar (1960), Lian Ross (1962), Heinrich von Gagern (1799), and Franz Josef Ruprecht (1814). After him are Carl Chun (1852), Friedrich von Huene (1875), Wolfgang Clement (1940), Christian Albrecht Jensen (1792), Franz Josef Jung (1949), and Paul Hermann (1646).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Peter Gay ranks 48. Before him are Georg Gottfried Gervinus (1805), Heinrich Gelzer (1847), Gerhard Ritter (1888), Franz Babinger (1891), Joseph Hergenröther (1824), and Heinrich Ewald (1803). After him are Nikolaus Pevsner (1902), Walter Jens (1923), Hermann Oldenberg (1854), Rainer Zitelmann (1957), Oliver Grau (1965), and Gerhard Weinberg (1928).

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