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George Mosse

1918 - 1999

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Gerhard "George" Lachmann Mosse (September 20, 1918 – January 22, 1999) was a German-born, Jewish-American social and cultural historian, who emigrated from Nazi Germany to Great Britain and then to the United States. He was professor of history at the University of Iowa, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and also in Israel, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Best known for his studies of Nazism, he authored more than 25 books on topics as diverse as constitutional history, Protestant theology, and the history of masculinity. In 1966, he and Walter Laqueur founded The Journal of Contemporary History, which they co-edited. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Mosse is the 2,918th most popular writer (down from 2,568th in 2019), the 3,091st most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,724th in 2019) and the 188th most popular German Writer.

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Among writers, George Mosse ranks 2,918 out of 7,302. Before him are Francisco Balagtas, Laurence Oliphant, Fritz Mauthner, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Paula von Preradović, and Ales Adamovich. After him are Leah Goldberg, Joan Alcover, Richard Wright, Louise Weiss, Acusilaus, and Julius Pomponius Laetus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, George Mosse ranks 136. Before him are Ján Kadár, Willi Graf, Hella Haasse, Aldo van Eyck, Shankar Dayal Sharma, and Humaira Begum. After him are Giovanni Canestri, Abraham Robinson, Joseph Wiseman, Mickey Spillane, Émile Derlin Zinsou, and Gottfried von Einem. Among people deceased in 1999, George Mosse ranks 112. Before him are Shankar Dayal Sharma, Oscar Cullmann, Fritz Fischer, Karekin I, Carlos Romero, and Theodore Hall. After him are Milt Jackson, Moondog, Flávio Costa, Grete Stern, Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, and Vazgen Sargsyan.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, George Mosse ranks 3,093 out of 7,253. Before him are Siegfried Bing (1838), Georg Konrad Morgen (1909), John George II, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (1665), Mario Götze (1992), Peter Hirsch (1925), and John Christian, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1700). After him are Gustav-Adolf von Zangen (1892), Henry Koster (1905), Johann Baptist Zimmermann (1680), Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau (1837), Karl Kling (1910), and Carlos Schwabe (1866).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, George Mosse ranks 188. Before him are Karl Philipp Moritz (1756), Wolfgang Iser (1926), Stefan Heym (1913), Solomon Perel (1925), Richard Dehmel (1863), and Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1772). After him are Sebastian Franck (1499), Gottschalk of Orbais (805), Günter Eich (1907), Willibald Pirckheimer (1470), Heinrich Vogeler (1872), and Georg Herwegh (1817).

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