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Ernst Kantorowicz

1895 - 1963

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Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz (May 3, 1895 – September 9, 1963) was a German historian of medieval political and intellectual history and art, known for his 1927 book Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite on Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, and The King's Two Bodies (1957) on medieval and early modern ideologies of monarchy and the state. He was an elected member of both the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ernst Kantorowicz is the 190th most popular historian (down from 170th in 2019), the 547th most popular biography from Poland (down from 519th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Polish Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Ernst Kantorowicz ranks 190 out of 561. Before him are Christopher Browning, Pulakeshin II, Ibn Abd al-Hakam, Linda Nochlin, Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, and Évariste Lévi-Provençal. After him are Krste Misirkov, Henri Maspero, Ibn Wahshiyya, Alexander Kazhdan, Aulus Cremutius Cordus, and Paul Veyne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Ernst Kantorowicz ranks 120. Before him are Carl Lutz, Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan, Jacques Brugnon, Liaquat Ali Khan, Ernesto Lecuona, and Iona Nikitchenko. After him are Bertil Lindblad, Robert Heinrich Wagner, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva, Alfred Neuland, Pan Yuliang, and H. A. R. Gibb. Among people deceased in 1963, Ernst Kantorowicz ranks 79. Before him are Ernst Marischka, Gustave Garrigou, Richard Kohn, Jacques Villon, Ernesto Lecuona, and Berthold, Margrave of Baden. After him are Henri Masson, Jacob Gade, Adrian Carton de Wiart, Alfred Wünnenberg, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, and Luis Cernuda.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Ernst Kantorowicz ranks 547 out of 1,694. Before him are Stefan Żeromski (1864), Helmut Lent (1918), Hans Woellke (1911), Karol Lipiński (1790), Zawisza Czarny (1379), and Ryszard Siwiec (1909). After him are Beata Tyszkiewicz (1938), Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762), Robert Remak (1815), Krystyna Skarbek (1908), Andrzej Panufnik (1914), and Bronisław Geremek (1932).

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Among HISTORIANS In Poland

Among historians born in Poland, Ernst Kantorowicz ranks 7. Before him are Johann Gustav Droysen (1808), Benzion Netanyahu (1910), Richard Pipes (1923), Gottfried Achenwall (1719), Otto von Gierke (1841), and Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821). After him are Heinrich Graetz (1817), Zeev Sternhell (1935), Karl Otfried Müller (1797), Walter Laqueur (1921), Israel Gutman (1923), and Jacob Talmon (1916).

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