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Jacob Talmon

1916 - 1980

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Jacob Leib Talmon (Hebrew: יעקב טלמון; June 14, 1916 – June 16, 1980) was Professor of Modern History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He studied the genealogy of totalitarianism, arguing that political Messianism stemmed from the French Revolution, and stressed the similarities between Jacobinism and Stalinism. He coined the terms "totalitarian democracy" and "Messianic democracy/political Messianism". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacob Talmon is the 373rd most popular historian (down from 352nd in 2019), the 910th most popular biography from Poland (down from 883rd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Polish Historian.

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Among historians, Jacob Talmon ranks 373 out of 561. Before him are Mykhailo Maksymovych, Taner Akçam, Khalifah ibn Khayyat, Benny Morris, Hugh Trevor-Roper, and John Keegan. After him are Leo Allatius, Heinrich Zimmer, Géza Alföldy, Gottfried Arnold, Léon Gautier, and Heinrich von Sybel.

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Among people born in 1916, Jacob Talmon ranks 188. Before him are Herbert Friedman, Edward Binns, Guy Lapébie, José Joaquín Trejos Fernández, Delio Rodríguez, and Kurt Pettersén. After him are Pierre Emmanuel, Johnny Claes, Ángel Suquía Goicoechea, Irving Wallace, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, and Josef Gauchel. Among people deceased in 1980, Jacob Talmon ranks 197. Before him are Heikki Liimatainen, Jijé, Mia May, Jóhann Hafstein, Aleksander Ford, and Zezé Procópio. After him are Maurice Genevoix, Pedro Vallana, Alexander Nesmeyanov, Rostislav Alexeyev, Marion Zinderstein, and Vladimír Holan.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jacob Talmon ranks 910 out of 1,694. Before him are Arno Holz (1863), Szymon Goldberg (1909), Bogdan Borusewicz (1949), Piotr Szulkin (1950), Eva Kotchever (1891), and Wanda Jakubowska (1907). After him are Andrzej Bartkowiak (1950), Karl Decker (1897), Anna Dymna (1951), Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (1950), Ewa Demarczyk (1941), and Friedrich von Adelung (1768).

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Among HISTORIANS In Poland

Among historians born in Poland, Jacob Talmon ranks 13. Before him are Ernst Kantorowicz (1895), Heinrich Graetz (1817), Zeev Sternhell (1935), Karl Otfried Müller (1797), Walter Laqueur (1921), and Israel Gutman (1923). After him are Fritz Stern (1926), Jan T. Gross (1947), Franz Theodor Kugler (1808), Albrecht Weber (1825), Benjamin Mazar (1906), and Janusz Kurtyka (1960).

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