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Walter Burkert

1931 - 2015

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Walter Burkert (German: [ˈbʊɐ̯kɐt]; 2 February 1931 – 11 March 2015) was a German scholar of Greek mythology and cult. A professor of classics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, he taught in the UK and the US. He has influenced generations of students of religion since the 1960s, combining in the modern way the findings of archaeology and epigraphy with the work of poets, historians, and philosophers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Burkert has received more than 220,367 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Burkert is the 335th most popular historian (down from 264th in 2019), the 3,966th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,317th in 2019) and the 44th most popular German Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Walter Burkert ranks 335 out of 561. Before him are Donald Keene, Julien Ries, Stephen E. Ambrose, Alain Besançon, Nicholas Adontz, and Mykhailo Maksymovych. After him are Edward Granville Browne, Paul Kennedy, Israel Gutman, Timothy D. Snyder, Benny Morris, and John King Fairbank.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Walter Burkert ranks 289. Before him are Vance D. Brand, Ivan Dziuba, Anderl Molterer, Alain Cavalier, John Norman, and Helena Pilejczyk. After him are Edith Bruck, Janusz Majewski, Norman Read, Tamara Tyshkevich, Fay Weldon, and Dorothy Stang. Among people deceased in 2015, Walter Burkert ranks 225. Before him are Nicholas Liverpool, Michael Blake, Dinkha IV, Theodore Bikel, Karl Josef Becker, and Charles Pasqua. After him are Elizabeth Wilson, Tadahiko Ueda, Henri Coppens, Miroslav Ondříček, Giovanni Canestri, and Melissa Mathison.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walter Burkert ranks 3,966 out of 7,253. Before him are Markus Söder (1967), Jacob Sturm (1771), Carl Dahlhaus (1928), Theodor Benfey (1809), Philipp Nicolai (1556), and Emil von Sauer (1862). After him are Georg Buschner (1925), Hans Clarin (1929), Conny Plank (1940), Cem Özdemir (1965), Otto Lehmann (1855), and Johann Schweigger (1779).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Walter Burkert ranks 44. Before him are Wilhelm von Bode (1845), Hermann Conring (1606), Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (1752), Friedrich Kittler (1943), Gerhard Friedrich Müller (1705), and Heinrich Gelzer (1847). After him are Heinrich Zimmer (1890), Peter Gay (1923), Franz Babinger (1891), Georg Gottfried Gervinus (1805), Heinrich von Sybel (1817), and Gottfried Arnold (1665).

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