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Heinrich Graetz

1817 - 1891

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Heinrich Graetz (German: [ɡʁɛts]; 31 October 1817 – 7 September 1891) was a German exegete and one of the first historians to write a comprehensive history of the Jewish people from a Jewish perspective. Born Tzvi Hirsch Graetz to a butcher family in Xions (now Książ Wielkopolski), Grand Duchy of Posen, in Prussia (now in Poland), he attended Breslau University, but since Jews at that time were barred from receiving Ph.D.s there, he obtained his doctorate from the University of Jena. After 1845 he was principal of the Jewish Orthodox school of the Breslau community, and later taught history at the Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland). His magnum opus History of the Jews was the first Jewish history which threaded together a unified national history across the global Jewish communities. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Graetz is the 256th most popular historian (down from 214th in 2019), the 674th most popular biography from Poland (down from 627th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Polish Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Heinrich Graetz ranks 256 out of 561. Before him are Sigfried Giedion, Guglielmo Ferrero, Charles Rollin, Iryna Melnykova, Richard G. Hovannisian, and Hisham ibn al-Kalbi. After him are Régine Pernoud, Zeev Sternhell, Alexander Svanidze, William H. Prescott, Lucius Coelius Antipater, and Philistus.

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Among people born in 1817, Heinrich Graetz ranks 47. Before him are Táhirih, Branwell Brontë, George Frederic Watts, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, Wilhelm Griesinger, and Georg Herwegh. After him are Joseph Poelaert, Debendranath Tagore, Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, Adolphe Alphand, Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, and Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten. Among people deceased in 1891, Heinrich Graetz ranks 63. Before him are Konstantin Leontiev, William Windom, Karl Maximovich, Miklós Ybl, Pōmare V, and Jean Stas. After him are Louis Paulsen, Prince Baudouin of Belgium, Theodor Aman, Sarah Childress Polk, Laza Lazarević, and Adolphe Alphand.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Heinrich Graetz ranks 674 out of 1,694. Before him are Marcin Bielski (1495), George I, Duke of Pomerania (1493), Eugen Goldstein (1860), Bronisława Wajs (1908), August Hlond (1881), and Hilary Koprowski (1916). After him are Richard Herrmann (1923), Henryk Jabłoński (1909), Henner Henkel (1915), Zeev Sternhell (1935), Krzysztof Komeda (1931), and Jan Czochralski (1885).

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Among HISTORIANS In Poland

Among historians born in Poland, Heinrich Graetz ranks 8. Before him are Benzion Netanyahu (1910), Richard Pipes (1923), Gottfried Achenwall (1719), Otto von Gierke (1841), Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821), and Ernst Kantorowicz (1895). After him are Zeev Sternhell (1935), Karl Otfried Müller (1797), Walter Laqueur (1921), Israel Gutman (1923), Jacob Talmon (1916), and Fritz Stern (1926).

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