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Walter Laqueur

1921 - 2018

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Walter Ze'ev Laqueur (26 May 1921 – 30 September 2018) was a German-born American historian, journalist, political commentator, and Holocaust survivor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Laqueur has received more than 222,431 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Laqueur is the 206th most popular historian (down from 191st in 2019), the 615th most popular biography from Poland (down from 581st in 2019) and the 9th most popular Polish Historian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Walter Laqueur ranks 206 out of 561. Before him are Robert Conquest, Ibn Abd al-Hakam, Pulakeshin II, Alexander Vasiliev, Philochorus, and Karl Otfried Müller. After him are Tony Judt, Aulus Cremutius Cordus, Constantine Lascaris, Zeev Sternhell, Friedrich Meinecke, and Egon Friedell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Walter Laqueur ranks 169. Before him are Dinko Šakić, Georges Mathieu, Andrzej Munk, Gaston Reiff, Alex Haley, and Daniel Gélin. After him are Silvio Gazzaniga, Wadih El Safi, Reuven Feuerstein, Tadeusz Różewicz, Alphonse Massamba-Débat, and Guy Laroche. Among people deceased in 2018, Walter Laqueur ranks 158. Before him are Lindsay Kemp, William Goldman, Anna Maria Ferrero, Harlan Ellison, Dobri Dobrev, and Vladimir Voinovich. After him are Sinan Sakić, David Ogden Stiers, Ara Güler, Vitaliy Masol, Robert Indiana, and Roger Bannister.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Walter Laqueur ranks 615 out of 1,694. Before him are Otto Lasch (1893), Michał Sopoćko (1888), Józef Wybicki (1747), Gerda Steinhoff (1922), Robert Remak (1815), and Karl Otfried Müller (1797). After him are Michał Kazimierz Ogiński (1729), Martin Kutta (1867), Shmuel Eisenstadt (1923), Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1788), Zeev Sternhell (1935), and Ernst Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1863).

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Among HISTORIANS In Poland

Among historians born in Poland, Walter Laqueur ranks 9. Before him are Richard Pipes (1923), Gottfried Achenwall (1719), Ernst Kantorowicz (1895), Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821), Otto von Gierke (1841), and Karl Otfried Müller (1797). After him are Zeev Sternhell (1935), Heinrich Graetz (1817), Israel Gutman (1923), Jacob Talmon (1916), Fritz Stern (1926), and Jan T. Gross (1947).

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