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Heinrich Ewald

1803 - 1875

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Georg Heinrich August Ewald (16 November 1803 – 4 May 1875) was a German orientalist, Protestant theologian, and Biblical exegete. He studied at the University of Göttingen. In 1827 he became extraordinary professor there, in 1831 ordinary professor of theology, and in 1835 professor of oriental languages. In 1837, as a member of the Göttingen Seven, he lost his position at Göttingen on account of his protest against King Ernst August's abrogation of the liberal constitution, and became professor of theology at the University of Tübingen. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Ewald is the 439th most popular historian (down from 416th in 2019), the 4,789th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,606th in 2019) and the 54th most popular German Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Heinrich Ewald ranks 439 out of 561. Before him are Henry James Sumner Maine, Zdeněk Nejedlý, Abu Shama, Edward Duyker, Cyril Mango, and G. M. Trevelyan. After him are Arthur Smith Woodward, Carl Benjamin Boyer, Ekvtime Takaishvili, Mikheil Tsereteli, Nikolaus Pevsner, and Donald Nicol.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Heinrich Ewald ranks 72. Before him are Karl Schorn, José María Heredia y Heredia, Gustav von Alvensleben, Jules d'Anethan, George Borrow, and Friedrich Ludwig Persius. After him are Juan Bravo Murillo, Manuel Felipe de Tovar, Carl Jacob Löwig, Jacob Abbott, Domingo Nieto, and William Smith O'Brien. Among people deceased in 1875, Heinrich Ewald ranks 73. Before him are Giovanni Luppis, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, George Finlay, Joseph Othmar Rauscher, George Pickett, and José María Ventura Casas. After him are Henry Kellett, Zsigmond Kemény, Karl Mauch, John Gardner Wilkinson, Zecharias Frankel, and Juan Crisóstomo Torrico.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Ewald ranks 4,792 out of 7,253. Before him are Helga Seidler (1949), Jakob Emanuel Lange (1864), Hermann Kant (1926), Nina Hoss (1975), Harald Irmscher (1946), and Norbert Nigbur (1948). After him are Hanns Braun (1886), Johann Gottfried Seume (1763), Ulrich Matthes (1959), Marianne Hoppe (1909), Princess Marie of Hanover (1849), and Paul Rudolf von Bilguer (1815).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Heinrich Ewald ranks 54. Before him are Peter Gay (1923), Heinrich Gelzer (1847), Friedrich Kittler (1943), Eberhard Jäckel (1929), Joseph Hergenröther (1824), and Gerhard Ritter (1888). After him are Nikolaus Pevsner (1902), Martin Noth (1902), Hermann Oldenberg (1854), Walter Jens (1923), Rainer Zitelmann (1957), and Gerhard Weinberg (1928).

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