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Gerda Taro

1910 - 1937

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Gerta Pohorylle (1 August 1910 – 26 July 1937), known professionally as Gerda Taro, was a German war photographer active during the Spanish Civil War. She is regarded as the first female photojournalist to have died while covering the frontline in a war. Taro was the companion and professional partner of photographer Robert Capa, who, like her, was Jewish. The name "Robert Capa" was originally an alias that Taro and Capa (born Endre Friedmann) shared, an invention meant to mitigate the increasing political intolerance in Europe and to attract the lucrative American market. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gerda Taro is the 9th most popular journalist (down from 8th in 2019), the 554th most popular biography from Germany (down from 479th in 2019) and the most popular German Journalist.

Gerda Taro was a photojournalist who documented the Spanish Civil War. She is most famous for being killed in the conflict.

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Gerda Taro ranks 9 out of 196. Before her are Richard Sorge, Lee Miller, François-Noël Babeuf, Joseph Pulitzer, Gianni Rodari, and Oriana Fallaci. After her are Anna Politkovskaya, Dorothea Lange, W. T. Stead, Jean-Marie Balestre, John Reed, and Beate Klarsfeld.

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Among people born in 1910, Gerda Taro ranks 23. Before her are Django Reinhardt, Konrad Zuse, David Niven, Walter Schellenberg, Paul Flory, and Kurt Meyer. After her are Chiang Ching-kuo, Eric Berne, Katherine Oppenheimer, Michel Aflaq, Helenio Herrera, and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Among people deceased in 1937, Gerda Taro ranks 19. Before her are George Gershwin, Gustaf Dalén, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Yevgeny Zamyatin, and J. M. Barrie. After her are Austen Chamberlain, Gaston Doumergue, Andrew Mellon, Karol Szymanowski, Jean Harlow, and Charles-Marie Widor.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gerda Taro ranks 554 out of 7,253. Before her are Maria Josepha of Bavaria (1739), Pyotr Stolypin (1862), Louis II, Prince of Monaco (1870), Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515), Albert the Bear (1100), and Louise Mountbatten (1889). After her are Philipp Scheidemann (1865), Rabanus Maurus (780), John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg (1572), Julius Lothar Meyer (1830), Gisela of Hungary (980), and Victoria of Baden (1862).

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Among JOURNALISTS In Germany

Among journalists born in Germany, Gerda Taro ranks 1. After her are Beate Klarsfeld (1939), Aenne Burda (1909), Marta Hillers (1911), Thomas Nast (1840), Bill Brandt (1904), Norbert Haug (1952), Bogna Koreng (1965), Anja Niedringhaus (1965), Claas Relotius (1985), and Yury Dud (1986).

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