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Heinrich Zimmer

1890 - 1943

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Heinrich Robert Zimmer (6 December 1890 – 20 March 1943) was a German Indologist and linguist, as well as a historian of South Asian art, most known for his works, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization and Philosophies of India. He was the most important German scholar in Indian philology after Max Müller (1823–1900). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Zimmer is the 375th most popular historian (down from 343rd in 2019), the 4,320th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,076th in 2019) and the 45th most popular German Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Heinrich Zimmer ranks 375 out of 561. Before him are Khalifah ibn Khayyat, Benny Morris, Hugh Trevor-Roper, John Keegan, Jacob Talmon, and Leo Allatius. After him are Géza Alföldy, Gottfried Arnold, Léon Gautier, Heinrich von Sybel, Michele Amari, and Peter Gay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Heinrich Zimmer ranks 169. Before him are Lauritz Melchior, Naima Wifstrand, Mark Tobey, George Horine, Maurice Genevoix, and Lily Kronberger. After him are Joseph Helffrich, Imre Zachár, José Piendibene, Vera Inber, Jeanne Eagels, and Lev Chernyi. Among people deceased in 1943, Heinrich Zimmer ranks 162. Before him are George Hillyard, Harry Baur, Ioannis Persakis, Radclyffe Hall, Walter Thiel, and Eva Kotchever. After him are Maurice Hemelsoet, Estella Agsteribbe, Attila Petschauer, Adolf Urban, Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, and Lojze Grozde.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Zimmer ranks 4,322 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825), Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt (1855), Johann Nicolaus Bach (1669), Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer (1801), Christian Konrad Sprengel (1750), and Walter Kaufmann (1871). After him are Ludwig Aschoff (1866), Manfred Eicher (1943), Wolfgang Kleff (1946), Heinrich Kayser (1853), Adam Lonicer (1528), and Emil Rausch (1883).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Heinrich Zimmer ranks 45. Before him are Max Jakob Friedländer (1867), Georg Gottfried Gervinus (1805), Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (1752), Arno Peters (1916), Kurt Aland (1915), and Franz Babinger (1891). After him are Gottfried Arnold (1665), Heinrich von Sybel (1817), Peter Gay (1923), Heinrich Gelzer (1847), Friedrich Kittler (1943), and Eberhard Jäckel (1929).

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