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Hermann Oldenberg

1854 - 1920

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Hermann Oldenberg (31 October 1854 – 18 March 1920) was a German scholar of Indology, and Professor at Kiel (1898) and Göttingen (1908). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Oldenberg is the 453rd most popular historian (up from 465th in 2019), the 4,848th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,921st in 2019) and the 57th most popular German Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Hermann Oldenberg ranks 453 out of 561Before her are Drew Gilpin Faust, Martin Gilbert, John King Fairbank, Martin Noth, Américo Castro, and Girolamo Mei. After her are Alain Besançon, Helene Ahrweiler, Lawrence Stone, David Marshall Lang, Michael Aris, and Charles Homer Haskins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Hermann Oldenberg ranks 110Before her are Yehuda Pen, Joseph Jacobs, David Dunbar Buick, Gerhard Louis De Geer, Teuku Umar, and Ali bin Said of Zanzibar. After her are Jan Sztolcman, Queenie Newall, Takamine Jōkichi, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Dukinfield Henry Scott, and William C. Gorgas. Among people deceased in 1920, Hermann Oldenberg ranks 112Before her are William de Wiveleslie Abney, Ion Dragoumis, William Dean Howells, Victoriano Guisasola y Menéndez, Otto Bütschli, and Georgios Papasideris. After her are Horatio Caro, Mary Katharine Brandegee, Albert Zürner, Robert Harron, Charles Lapworth, and Alberto Nepomuceno.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Oldenberg ranks 4,851 out of 7,253Before her are Gerhard Lamprecht (1897), Lya Lys (1908), Wilhelm Geiger (1856), Carl H. Eigenmann (1863), Jakob van Hoddis (1887), and Oswald Teichmüller (1913). After her are Wolfgang Blochwitz (1941), Walter Behrendt (1914), Serge Gnabry (1995), Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert (1769), Edgar Reinhardt (1914), and Roland Grapow (1959).

Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Hermann Oldenberg ranks 57Before her are Eberhard Jäckel (1929), Joseph Hergenröther (1824), Gerhard Ritter (1888), Heinrich Ewald (1803), Nikolaus Pevsner (1902), and Martin Noth (1902). After her are Walter Jens (1923), Rainer Zitelmann (1957), Gerhard Weinberg (1928), and Oliver Grau (1965).