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Wilferd Madelung

1930 - 2023

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Wilferd Ferdinand Madelung FBA (26 December 1930 – 9 May 2023) was a German author and scholar of Islamic history widely recognised for his contributions to the fields of Islamic and Iranian studies. He was appreciated in Iran for his "knowledgeable and fair" treatment of the Shia perspective. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilferd Madelung has received more than 154,393 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Wilferd Madelung is the 4,724th most popular writer, the 4,185th most popular biography from Germany and the 282nd most popular German Writer.

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  • 150k

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  • 46.19

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Wilferd Madelung ranks 4,724 out of 5,755. Before him are Joanna Russ, Béla Illés, Konstantin Vasilyevich Ivanov, Henry Roth, Teresa de la Parra, and Imants Ziedonis. After him are Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Hansa Jivraj Mehta, Richard Scarry, Reginald Rose, Jean-Christophe Rufin, and Art Buchwald.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Wilferd Madelung ranks 373. Before him are Ellen Schwiers, John Landy, Matt Monro, Aleksandar Matanović, Ignazio Fabra, and Kei Kumai. After him are Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, Theodore Freeman, Anatoly Kuznetsov, Alakbar Mammadov, Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, and Giorgio Ghezzi. Among people deceased in 2023, Wilferd Madelung ranks 274. Before him are Aleksandar Matanović, Osvaldo Héctor Cruz, Aleksandr Viktorenko, John Pilger, Jorge Edwards, and Alberto Mario González. After him are Abraham Lempel, Michael Lerner, Fay Weldon, Lasse Berghagen, Vera T. Sós, and Mikio Aoki.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilferd Madelung ranks 4,185 out of 6,142. Before him are Sonja Graf (1908), Bernd Bransch (1944), Aleida Assmann (1947), Konrad Frey (1909), Maria Schrader (1965), and Markus Grosskopf (1965). After him are Ulrich Tukur (1957), Raimond Aumann (1963), Richard Röstel (1872), Christian Lindner (1979), Marika Kilius (1943), and Angelique Kerber (1988).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Wilferd Madelung ranks 282. Before him are Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680), Hermann Kant (1926), Georg Calixtus (1586), Fritz von Unruh (1885), Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg (1750), and Christian Gotthilf Salzmann (1744). After him are E. Marlitt (1825), Jakob van Hoddis (1887), Günter Kunert (1929), Joseph Meyer (1796), August Spies (1855), and Horst Faas (1933).

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