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Waldemar Hoven

1903 - 1948

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Waldemar Hoven (10 February 1903 – 2 June 1948) was a Nazi physician at Buchenwald concentration camp, and convicted war criminal for conducting human experiments regarding typhus which led to the deaths of many concentration camp prisoners, and as one of the organizers of the euthanasia program Aktion T4; this Nazi initiative resulted in the systematic murder of 275,000 to 300,000 disabled people. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Waldemar Hoven has received more than 179,726 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Waldemar Hoven is the 158th most popular physician (up from 164th in 2019), the 1,014th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,142nd in 2019) and the 21st most popular German Physician.

Waldemar Hoven is most famous for his work with German Expressionism. He was a painter, graphic artist, and art critic.

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  • 60.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Waldemar Hoven ranks 158 out of 502. Before him are Alan Hodgkin, Ludwig Guttmann, E. Donnall Thomas, George Emil Palade, Fritz Klein, and Magnus Hirschfeld. After him are Sushruta, Bernardo Houssay, Joseph Erlanger, Robin Warren, Michael Stuart Brown, and Merit-Ptah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Waldemar Hoven ranks 58. Before him are Claudette Colbert, Haldan Keffer Hartline, George Davis Snell, Irving Stone, Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, and Vincente Minnelli. After him are Erskine Caldwell, Giulio Natta, Raymond Radiguet, Maria Reiche, Aleksei N. Leontiev, and Maud Lewis. Among people deceased in 1948, Waldemar Hoven ranks 36. Before him are Iwane Matsui, D. W. Griffith, Tamam Shud case, Georges Bernanos, Uzeyir Hajibeyov, and Zelda Fitzgerald. After him are Yoshiko Kawashima, Emil Ludwig, Kantarō Suzuki, Dieter Wisliceny, Otto Rasch, and Rudolf Brandt.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Waldemar Hoven ranks 1,014 out of 6,142. Before him are Bernhard Schlink (1944), Johannes Valentinus Andreae (1586), Sophia of Prussia (1870), August Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1760), Natalia Alexeievna (1755), and Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1697). After him are Barbara Blomberg (1527), James Mayer de Rothschild (1792), Augustus, Elector of Saxony (1526), Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach (1775), Constantin Fehrenbach (1852), and Charles, Grand Duke of Baden (1786).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Waldemar Hoven ranks 21. Before him are Herta Oberheuser (1911), Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840), Franz Joseph Gall (1758), Johannes Peter Müller (1801), Theodor Billroth (1829), and Ludwig Guttmann (1899). After him are Engelbert Kaempfer (1651), Albert of Riga (1165), Werner Haase (1900), Ernst-Günther Schenck (1904), August von Wassermann (1866), and Sebastian Kneipp (1821).

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