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Fritz Stern

1926 - 2016

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Fritz Richard Stern (February 2, 1926 – May 18, 2016) was a German-born American historian of German history, Jewish history and historiography. He was a University Professor and a provost at New York's Columbia University. His work focused on the complex relationships between Germans and Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries and on the rise of National Socialism in Germany during the first half of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fritz Stern is the 384th most popular historian (down from 359th in 2019), the 932nd most popular biography from Poland (down from 895th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Polish Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Fritz Stern ranks 384 out of 561Before him are Léon Gautier, Heinrich von Sybel, Michele Amari, Peter Gay, Heinrich Gelzer, and Ernest Labrousse. After him are Cadmus of Miletus, Domenico Losurdo, Jan T. Gross, Ronald Syme, Ehsan Yarshater, and Zhao Rukuo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Fritz Stern ranks 317Before him are Hong Deok-young, René Depestre, Edmund Purdom, Julius Katchen, Abdur Rahman Biswas, and Hans Günter Winkler. After him are Ede Király, Marcello Abbado, Pino Dordoni, Franco Faggi, Yevgeny Yevstigneyev, and Bob Falkenburg. Among people deceased in 2016, Fritz Stern ranks 313Before him are Anita Brookner, Marco Pannella, Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Muhamed Mujić, John Johnson, and Martin Gray. After him are Michel Déon, Susana Duijm, Eliseo Prado, Georges Balandier, Merle Haggard, and Ad-Diba.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Fritz Stern ranks 932 out of 1,694Before him are Marie Rambert (1888), Zygmunt Gorazdowski (1845), Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1820), Hanna Krall (1935), Konstantin Kalinin (1887), and Martin Gray (1922). After him are Stanisław Kowalski (1910), Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski (1503), Tommy Wiseau (1955), Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925), Adam Zamenhof (1888), and Michalina Wisłocka (1921).

Among HISTORIANS In Poland

Among historians born in Poland, Fritz Stern ranks 14Before him are Heinrich Graetz (1817), Zeev Sternhell (1935), Karl Otfried Müller (1797), Walter Laqueur (1921), Israel Gutman (1923), and Jacob Talmon (1916). After him are Jan T. Gross (1947), Franz Theodor Kugler (1808), Albrecht Weber (1825), Benjamin Mazar (1906), and Janusz Kurtyka (1960).