SOCIOLOGIST

Ziya Gökalp

1876 - 1924

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Mehmet Ziya Gökalp (born Mehmed Ziya, 23 March 1876 – 25 October 1924) was a Turkish sociologist, writer, poet, and politician. After the 1908 Young Turk Revolution that reinstated constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire, he adopted the pen name Gökalp ("celestial hero"), which he retained for the rest of his life. As a sociologist, Ziya Gökalp was influential in the negation of Islamism, pan-Islamism, and Ottomanism as ideological, cultural, and sociological identifiers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ziya Gökalp has received more than 270,734 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Ziya Gökalp is the 26th most popular sociologist, the 404th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 466th in 2019) and the most popular Sociologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 270k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Ziya Gökalps by language

Over the past year Ziya Gökalp has had the most page views in the with 190,359 views, followed by English (46,919), and Russian (10,026). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Western Punjabi (583.91%), Bengali (185.44%), and Russian (94.23%)

Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Ziya Gökalp ranks 26 out of 79. Before him are Peter L. Berger, Paul Lazarsfeld, C. Wright Mills, Robert Michels, Thomas Luckmann, and Daniel Bell. After him are Saskia Sassen, Robert E. Park, Howard S. Becker, Stuart Hall, Ludwig Gumplowicz, and Georges Gurvitch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Ziya Gökalp ranks 45. Before him are Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Ivan Cankar, Robert Michels, Walter Sydney Adams, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, and Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark. After him are Ivan Bilibin, Fevzi Çakmak, Tomáš Baťa, Anna de Noailles, August Sander, and Nicola Romeo. Among people deceased in 1924, Ziya Gökalp ranks 30. Before him are Bogd Khan, Arne Garborg, Paul Natorp, G. Stanley Hall, Teófilo Braga, and Lyubov Popova. After him are Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Fernand Cormon, Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr., Matsukata Masayoshi, Aleksa Šantić, and Théodore Dubois.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Ziya Gökalp ranks 404 out of 1,347. Before him are Markos Vafeiadis (1906), Sultan Kösen (1982), George Akropolites (1217), Tudḫaliya IV (-1300), Hakan Şükür (1971), and Symeon the Metaphrast (900). After him are Pelagia (400), Asclepiades of Bithynia (-120), Paisios of Mount Athos (1924), Prusias I of Bithynia (-300), Basil Zaharoff (1849), and Henri Verneuil (1920).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In Türkiye

Among sociologists born in Türkiye, Ziya Gökalp ranks 1. 

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