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Wilhelm von Bode

1845 - 1929

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Wilhelm von Bode (10 December 1845 – 1 March 1929) was a German art historian and museum curator. Born Arnold Wilhelm Bode in Calvörde, and known as Wilhelm Bode for most of his career, he was ennobled in 1913, and thereafter adopted the aristocratic "von". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm von Bode has received more than 64,509 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Wilhelm von Bode is the 302nd most popular historian (down from 243rd in 2019), the 3,656th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,117th in 2019) and the 38th most popular German Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Wilhelm von Bode ranks 302 out of 561Before him are Kurt Aland, Filippo Baldinucci, Jean Delumeau, Stéphane Courtois, Clifford Edmund Bosworth, and Lyubomir Miletich. After him are William H. McNeill, Léon Poliakov, Hermann Conring, Marsyas of Pella, Joan Wallach Scott, and A. J. P. Taylor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Wilhelm von Bode ranks 62Before him are Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin, Gustaf Cederström, John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, Wilhelm Pfeffer, and Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski. After him are Henri Brocard, Félix Tisserand, Pál Szinyei Merse, Jules Cambon, Judith Gautier, and Ulisse Dini. Among people deceased in 1929, Wilhelm von Bode ranks 82Before him are Archibald Reiss, Charles F. Brush, Pierre Fatou, Leonard Hobhouse, Manuel Díaz, and Amandus Adamson. After him are Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, Agner Krarup Erlang, Ivo Vojnović, Otto Binswanger, Ernest Mason Satow, and Julio Antonio Mella.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm von Bode ranks 3,656 out of 7,253Before him are Max Dehn (1878), Johann Julius Walbaum (1724), Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (1719), Reinhard Mey (1942), Albert Ballin (1857), and Frederick VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1769). After him are Henry, Duke of Saxe-Römhild (1650), Bernhard Klodt (1926), Leonhard Frank (1882), Gunter d'Alquen (1910), Konrad von Erlichshausen (1390), and Reinhard Libuda (1943).

Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Wilhelm von Bode ranks 38Before him are Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729), Max Jakob Friedländer (1867), Philipp Spitta (1841), Ludwig von Pastor (1854), Ubbo Emmius (1547), and Kurt Aland (1915). After him are Hermann Conring (1606), Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (1752), Friedrich Kittler (1943), Gerhard Friedrich Müller (1705), Heinrich Gelzer (1847), and Walter Burkert (1931).