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George Ostrogorsky

1902 - 1976

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George Alexandrovich Ostrogorsky (Russian: Георгий Александрович Острогорский, romanized: Georgiy Aleksandrovich Ostrogorskiy; Serbian: Георгије Александрович Острогорски, Georgije Aleksandrovič Ostrogorski; 19 January 1902 – 24 October 1976) was a Russian-born Yugoslavian historian and Byzantinist who was widely known for his achievements in Byzantine studies. He was a professor at the University of Belgrade. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Ostrogorsky is the 82nd most popular historian (up from 87th in 2019), the 345th most popular biography from Russia (up from 388th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, George Ostrogorsky ranks 82 out of 561. Before him are Al-Dhahabi, Eutropius, Gaston Maspero, Kenneth Clark, Nicolaus of Damascus, and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.. After him are Carlo Ginzburg, Julius Wellhausen, Timaeus, Donna Haraway, Erich Auerbach, and Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, George Ostrogorsky ranks 49. Before him are Harold Lasswell, Alexander Luria, Prince George, Duke of Kent, Max Ophüls, Felix Wankel, and Ryuzo Shimizu. After him are Luis Barragán, Mohammad Hatta, Gianpiero Combi, Lúcio Costa, Fritz Strassmann, and Carlo Levi. Among people deceased in 1976, George Ostrogorsky ranks 45. Before him are João Goulart, René Cassin, Andrei Grechko, Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Josef Albers, and Dalton Trumbo. After him are Murtala Mohammed, Paul Lazarsfeld, Mukesh, Yukio Goto, Lin Yutang, and Kazi Nazrul Islam.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, George Ostrogorsky ranks 345 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolai Rubinstein (1835), Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1943), Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933), Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia (1554), Mikhail Khodorkovsky (1963), and Michael Chekhov (1891). After him are Fyodor Tyutchev (1803), Avvakum (1620), Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia (1832), Andrei Konchalovsky (1937), Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859), and Edith Södergran (1892).

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Among HISTORIANS In Russia

Among historians born in Russia, George Ostrogorsky ranks 1. After him are Lev Gumilyov (1912), Vasily Bartold (1869), Vladimir Minorsky (1877), Alexander Kazhdan (1922), Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841), Alexander Vasiliev (1867), Jacob Theodor Klein (1685), Mikhail Pogodin (1800), Serhii Plokhy (1957), Léon Poliakov (1910), and Olena Apanovych (1919).

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