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Tony Judt

1948 - 2010

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Tony Robert Judt ( JUT; 2 January 1948 – 6 August 2010) was an English historian, essayist and university professor who specialised in European history. Judt moved to New York and served as the Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies at New York University and director of NYU's Remarque Institute. He was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tony Judt has received more than 604,289 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Tony Judt is the 207th most popular historian (up from 246th in 2019), the 2,032nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,315th in 2019) and the 19th most popular British Historian.

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  • 600k

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  • 53.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Tony Judt ranks 207 out of 561. Before him are Ibn Abd al-Hakam, Pulakeshin II, Alexander Vasiliev, Philochorus, Karl Otfried Müller, and Walter Laqueur. After him are Aulus Cremutius Cordus, Constantine Lascaris, Zeev Sternhell, Friedrich Meinecke, Egon Friedell, and Guo Pu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Tony Judt ranks 222. Before him are Pietro Anastasi, Massoud Rajavi, Manuel Bento, Manuel Clemente, Peter James, and Muhammad Zaidan. After him are Art Spiegelman, Rick Parfitt, Meir Shalev, Kitten Natividad, Bernhard Lehmann, and Robert Holdstock. Among people deceased in 2010, Tony Judt ranks 135. Before him are Anna Walentynowicz, Giuseppe Taddei, Jill Clayburgh, Paul Augustin Mayer, Per Oscarsson, and Manute Bol. After him are Shmuel Eisenstadt, Hajo Herrmann, Pernell Roberts, Abraham Sutzkever, Leonid Kizim, and Bogdan Bogdanović.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Tony Judt ranks 2,032 out of 8,785. Before him are Sadiq Khan (1970), Perry Anderson (1938), John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886), John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836), Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563), and Robert Torrens (1780). After him are John Burgoyne (1722), Claude Auchinleck (1884), Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots (1404), Robert Donat (1905), Stuart Wilson (1946), and Francesca Annis (1945).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Tony Judt ranks 19. Before him are Anthony Blunt (1907), Steven Runciman (1903), Antony Beevor (1946), W. Montgomery Watt (1909), William of Malmesbury (1080), and Robert Conquest (1917). After him are John Foxe (1516), Gerald of Wales (1146), Timothy Garton Ash (1955), Quentin Skinner (1940), Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810), and Christopher Hill (1912).

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