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Walter Jens

1923 - 2013

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Walter Jens (8 March 1923 – 9 June 2013) was a German philologist, literature historian, critic, university professor and writer.He was born in Hamburg, and attended the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums from 1933 to 1941, when he gained his Abitur, before studying at the University of Hamburg.In the early 1940s, Jens joined the NSDAP. He denied having applied for membership actively and claimed that he had become a member automatically because he was a member of the Hitler Youth and that he never received a membership card. During World War II, he earned a doctorate in Freiburg with a work about Sophocles' tragedy and habilitated at age 26 with the work Tacitus und die Freiheit (Tacitus and Freedom) at the University of Tübingen.From 1950 onward, he was a member of the Group 47. That year, he had his breakthrough with the novel Nein. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Jens has received more than 34,822 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Jens is the 495th most popular historian (down from 388th in 2019), the 5,124th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,311th in 2019) and the 58th most popular German Historian.

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  • 35k

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  • 45.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Walter Jens by language

Over the past year Walter Jens has had the most page views in the with 45,047 views, followed by English (4,493), and French (862). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Occitan (121.43%), Egyptian Arabic (90.98%), and Basque (78.24%)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Walter Jens ranks 495 out of 561. Before him are Christopher Lasch, American Horse, H. J. R. Murray, George Grote, Christopher Clark, and Stephen F. Cohen. After him are Jacques Barzun, Cyril Mango, Stephen Greenblatt, Simon Schama, Alessandro Barbero, and Volodymyr Ivanovych Barvinok.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Walter Jens ranks 393. Before him are Hans Wetterström, Adolphe Hug, Fernando Campos, Jorge Daponte, John Holt, and Cyril M. Kornbluth. After him are Wim van der Voort, Lee Yuan-tsu, James E. Gunn, Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Helen Murray Free, and Paavo Lonkila. Among people deceased in 2013, Walter Jens ranks 386. Before him are Carlos Graça, Paul Bearer, Richard LeParmentier, Irina Petrescu, Donald Richie, and George E. P. Box. After him are Ruth Patrick, Nino Bibbia, Cedar Walton, Alfonso Lara, Silvi Vrait, and Alberto Bevilacqua.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walter Jens ranks 5,124 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans Pflügler (1960), Walter Moers (1957), Gisela May (1924), Helga Niessen Masthoff (1941), Erwin Strittmatter (1912), and Paul Weinstein (1878). After him are Heidi Biebl (1941), Julius Körner (1870), Werner Klingler (1903), Heidi Kabel (1914), Wolfgang Hofmann (1941), and Aleksandra Khokhlova (1897).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Walter Jens ranks 58. Before him are Heinrich Ewald (1803), Martin Noth (1902), Joseph Hergenröther (1824), Eberhard Jäckel (1929), Hermann Oldenberg (1854), and Nikolaus Pevsner (1902). After him are Rainer Zitelmann (1957), Oliver Grau (1965), and Gerhard Weinberg (1928).

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