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Franz Babinger

1891 - 1967

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Franz Babinger (15 January 1891 – Durrës, 23 June 1967) was a well-known German orientalist and historian of the Ottoman Empire, best known for his biography of the great Ottoman emperor Mehmed II, known as "the Conqueror", originally published as Mehmed der Eroberer und seine Zeit. An English translation by Ralph Manheim is available from Princeton University Press under the title Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Babinger is the 366th most popular historian (down from 362nd in 2019), the 4,256th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,283rd in 2019) and the 44th most popular German Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Franz Babinger ranks 366 out of 561. Before him are Miroslav Hroch, Fenestella, Israel Gutman, Donald Kagan, Léon Poliakov, and Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti. After him are Mykhailo Maksymovych, Taner Akçam, Khalifah ibn Khayyat, Benny Morris, Hugh Trevor-Roper, and John Keegan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Franz Babinger ranks 195. Before him are Adolf Busch, Philipp Etter, William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, Harald Öhquist, Oreste Puliti, and Zoltán Mechlovits. After him are Mary Browne, Alexander Gorbatov, Anatoly Pepelyayev, Emil Julius Gumbel, Eva Kotchever, and Otilio Ulate Blanco. Among people deceased in 1967, Franz Babinger ranks 183. Before him are Erick-Oskar Hansen, Väinö Kokkinen, Mischa Auer, Gigi Meroni, Eugénie Cotton, and Bert Lahr. After him are Arthur Ransome, Óscar Diego Gestido, Ciro Alegría, Fausto Acke, Stanley Bruce, and Henry Luce.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Franz Babinger ranks 4,258 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Peter Salomon (1745), Maxi Herber (1920), Rudolf Augstein (1923), Adrian Sutil (1983), Otto Waalkes (1948), and Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold (1804). After him are Martin Chemnitz (1522), Lewis A. Coser (1913), Rosi Mittermaier (1950), Ernst Zündel (1939), Hans Apel (1932), and Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1849).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Franz Babinger ranks 44. Before him are Walter Burkert (1931), Max Jakob Friedländer (1867), Georg Gottfried Gervinus (1805), Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (1752), Arno Peters (1916), and Kurt Aland (1915). After him are Heinrich Zimmer (1890), Gottfried Arnold (1665), Heinrich von Sybel (1817), Peter Gay (1923), Heinrich Gelzer (1847), and Friedrich Kittler (1943).

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