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Raphael Lemkin

1900 - 1959

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Raphael Lemkin (Polish: Rafał Lemkin; 24 June 1900 – 28 August 1959) was a Polish lawyer. He is known for coining the term "genocide" and for campaigning to establish the Genocide Convention, which legally defines the act. Following the German invasion of Poland in 1939, he fled the country and sought asylum in the United States, where he became an academic at Duke University and campaigned vigorously to raise international awareness of the atrocities that were being committed by the Axis powers across occupied Europe. It was amidst this environment during World War II that Lemkin coined the term "genocide" to describe Nazi Germany's extermination policy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raphael Lemkin has received more than 835,630 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Raphael Lemkin is the 17th most popular lawyer (down from 15th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Belarus and the most popular Belarusian Lawyer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, Raphael Lemkin ranks 17 out of 136. Before him are Aemilius Papinianus, Tobias Asser, Rudolf von Jhering, Leo Frank, Tribonian, and Muhammad al-Shaybani. After him are Al-Tahawi, Carla Del Ponte, Al-Mawardi, John F. Kennedy Jr., Irnerius, and Peter Benenson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Raphael Lemkin ranks 46. Before him are Gladwyn Jebb, Anna Seghers, W. Edwards Deming, Thomas Wolfe, Howard H. Aiken, and Pedro Cea. After him are Edith Frank, Maria of Yugoslavia, Zelda Fitzgerald, Maurice Thorez, Jean Negulesco, and Nathalie Sarraute. Among people deceased in 1959, Raphael Lemkin ranks 24. Before him are Alfred Schütz, Errol Flynn, Arthur Cecil Pigou, Enrico De Nicola, Ritchie Valens, and Alfred Kubin. After him are Mike Hawthorn, Mario Lanza, Edward C. Tolman, Ettore Majorana, John Foster Dulles, and Carlos Saavedra Lamas.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Raphael Lemkin ranks 28 out of 368. Before him are Ossip Zadkine (1888), Pavel Sukhoi (1895), Alexander Parvus (1867), Stanisław Moniuszko (1819), Bronislav Kaminski (1899), and Léon Bakst (1866). After him are Maria Kaczyńska (1942), Francysk Skaryna (1486), Stanislav Shushkevich (1934), Sophia of Minsk (1140), Yakub Kolas (1882), and Marek Edelman (1922).

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Among LAWYERS In Belarus

Among lawyers born in Belarus, Raphael Lemkin ranks 1. 

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