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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 209,360 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Burkert is the 264th most popular historian (down from 203rd in 2019), the 3,320th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,817th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular German Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Walter Burkert ranks 264 out of 339. Before him are Al-Nuwayri, Ghazar Parpetsi, Christopher Hill, Bernard Berenson, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, and Johannes Meursius. After him are Émile Mâle, Bobojon Ghafurov, Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, Alexander Vasiliev, George Cœdès, and Alexander Kazhdan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Walter Burkert ranks 238. Before him are Nílton de Sordi, David Cooper, Tosiwo Nakayama, Stelios Kazantzidis, Lê Khả Phiêu, and Tab Hunter. After him are José Alencar, Guido Messina, Bruno Mattei, Kyōko Kagawa, Willie Mays, and Richard Ratsimandrava. Among people deceased in 2015, Walter Burkert ranks 182. Before him are James Salter, Moira Orfei, Richard Johnson, Carlo Furno, Roddy Piper, and Wan Li. After him are Czesław Kiszczak, Barbro Hiort af Ornäs, Slavko Avsenik, Sergio Sollima, Fred Anton Maier, and Ján Chryzostom Korec.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walter Burkert ranks 3,320 out of 6,142. Before him are Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721), Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1581), Nick Heidfeld (1977), Prince Aribert of Anhalt (1866), Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (1719), and Otto Lesser (1830). After him are Heike Makatsch (1971), Reinhard Marx (1953), Greta Schröder (1891), John Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1677), Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann (1797), and Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider (1750).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Walter Burkert ranks 33. Before him are Karl Krumbacher (1856), Friedrich Meinecke (1862), Philipp Spitta (1841), Wilhelm von Bode (1845), Johannes Aventinus (1477), and Max Jakob Friedländer (1867). After him are Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim (1701), Ubbo Emmius (1547), Gerhard Friedrich Müller (1705), Heinrich Zimmer (1890), Kurt Aland (1915), and Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (1752).

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