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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 of Jewish descent who is known for coining the term genocide and campaigning to establish the Genocide Convention. During the Second World War, he campaigned vigorously to raise international outrage against atrocities in Axis-occupied Europe. It was during this time that Lemkin coined the term "genocide" to describe Nazi Germany's extermination policies against Jews and Poles.As a young law student deeply conscious of antisemitic persecution, Lemkin learned about the Ottoman empire's massacres of Armenians during World War I and was deeply disturbed by the absence of international provisions to charge Ottoman officials who carried out war crimes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raphael Lemkin has received more than 702,149 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 700k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Raphael Lemkins by language

Over the past year Raphael Lemkin has had the most page views in the with 113,404 views, followed by Polish (14,300), and Russian (14,048). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hebrew (76.64%), Indonesian (67.76%), and Serbo-Croatian (59.23%)

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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