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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 and political commentator. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Laqueur has received more than 206,798 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Walter Laqueur is the 191st most popular historian (up from 236th in 2019), the 581st most popular biography from Poland (up from 683rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Polish Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Walter Laqueur ranks 191 out of 339Before him are Philistus, Edward Luttwak, Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, Mirkhvand, Gerardus Vossius, and Ferdinand Gregorovius. After him are Quentin Skinner, Abraham Geiger, Constantine Lascaris, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, W. Montgomery Watt, and Frederick Jackson Turner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Walter Laqueur ranks 171Before him are Joseph A. Walker, Georgy Beregovoy, Silvio Gazzaniga, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Daniel Gélin, and Guy Laroche. After him are Branko Stanković, Sena Jurinac, Erich Fried, Robert Brown, Jamie Uys, and Jair da Rosa Pinto. Among people deceased in 2018, Walter Laqueur ranks 153Before him are Ola Ullsten, Ara Güler, Dan Gurney, Nancy Roman, John Sulston, and Kirin Kiki. After him are David C. H. Austin, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Venantino Venantini, Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Trần Đại Quang, and Serge Dassault.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Walter Laqueur ranks 581 out of 1,454Before him are Krzysztof Wielicki (1950), Ottomar Anschütz (1846), Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser (1855), Otto Freundlich (1878), Jerzy Andrzejewski (1909), and Hugo von Pohl (1855). After him are Robert Remak (1815), Stanisław Mikulski (1929), Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro (1926), Helene Deutsch (1884), Józef Maria Bocheński (1902), and Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595).

Among HISTORIANS In Poland

Among historians born in Poland, Walter Laqueur ranks 9Before him are Ernst Kantorowicz (1895), Otto von Gierke (1841), Gottfried Achenwall (1719), Benzion Netanyahu (1910), Heinrich Graetz (1817), and Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821). After him are Zeev Sternhell (1935), Karl Otfried Müller (1797), Jacob Talmon (1916), Fritz Stern (1926), Jan T. Gross (1947), and Benjamin Mazar (1906).