CHESS PLAYER

Robert Hübner

1948 - 2025

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Robert Hübner (6 November 1948 – 5 January 2025) was a German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and papyrologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Hübner has received more than 93,528 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Robert Hübner is the 85th most popular chess player (up from 92nd in 2019), the 3,648th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,453rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Chess Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Robert Hübner ranks 85 out of 461. Before him are Rudolf Charousek, Rashid Nezhmetdinov, Harry Nelson Pillsbury, Friðrik Ólafsson, Nana Alexandria, and Friedrich Sämisch. After him are Jean Dufresne, Alexander Petrov, Levon Aronian, Gideon Ståhlberg, Luděk Pachman, and Ignatz Kolisch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Robert Hübner ranks 313. Before him are Winfried Kretschmann, Yoshihito, Prince Katsura, Alfonso Cano, Rick James, Koloman Gögh, and Jackson Browne. After him are Yossi Beilin, Levy Mwanawasa, Shigesato Itoi, Josef Hickersberger, Joe Dallesandro, and Pedro Artola. Among people deceased in 2025, Robert Hübner ranks 8. Before him are Jean-Marie Le Pen, Ágnes Keleti, Costas Simitis, Oliviero Toscani, David Lodge, and Ferdi Tayfur. After him are Fabio Cudicini, Ján Zachara, Claude Allègre, Werner Leimgruber, Ayla Erduran, and Cristóbal Ortega.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Robert Hübner ranks 3,648 out of 7,253. Before him are Jackson Browne (1948), Princess Christine of Hesse-Rotenburg (1717), Georg Curtius (1820), Hans Talhoffer (1420), Corinna Harfouch (1954), and Karl Kaufmann (1900). After him are Gertrude of Brunswick (1060), Max Dehn (1878), Johann Julius Walbaum (1724), Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (1719), Reinhard Mey (1942), and Albert Ballin (1857).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Germany

Among chess players born in Germany, Robert Hübner ranks 3. Before him are Louis Paulsen (1833), and Friedrich Sämisch (1896). After him are Jean Dufresne (1829), Jacques Mieses (1865), Wolfgang Uhlmann (1935), Sonja Graf (1908), Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa (1818), Wolfgang Unzicker (1925), Bernhard Horwitz (1807), Carl Mayet (1810), and Hermann Pilnik (1914).

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