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Jaroslav Pelikan

1923 - 2006

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Jaroslav Jan Pelikan Jr. (; December 17, 1923 – May 13, 2006) was an American scholar of the history of Christianity, Christian theology, and medieval intellectual history at Yale University. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jaroslav Pelikan is the 4,634th most popular writer (up from 4,820th in 2019), the 6,946th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,633rd in 2019) and the 524th most popular American Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jaroslav Pelikan ranks 4,634 out of 7,302Before him are Guillermo Arriaga, József Katona, Birgitta Trotzig, Dmytro Pavlychko, E. Marlitt, and Laurence J. Peter. After him are Thomas Nashe, Elizabeth Goudge, Ramón J. Sender, Guillaume Musso, Alexander Volkov, and Christian Matras.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Jaroslav Pelikan ranks 298Before him are Vladimír Zábrodský, Primo Nebiolo, Ruth Williams Khama, Jim Reeves, Ferenc Sidó, and William Guarnere. After him are Pierre Chaunu, Stefan Bozhkov, Kosta Tomašević, Xie Jin, Ladislav Fuks, and Adolf Grünbaum. Among people deceased in 2006, Jaroslav Pelikan ranks 245Before him are Pjetër Arbnori, Theodore Levitt, Runer Jonsson, Ray Barretto, Paul Arizin, and Wolfgang Unzicker. After him are Frank Beyer, Jimmy Johnstone, Eugene Lazowski, Mary Boyce, Savino Guglielmetti, and Abdul-Halim Sadulayev.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jaroslav Pelikan ranks 6,948 out of 20,380Before him are Lee Smolin (1955), Morgana King (1930), Laura Bailey (1981), Al Smith (1873), Steven Culp (1955), and Shane Black (1961). After him are Ann Sheridan (1915), Louie Anderson (1953), George Bancroft (1882), Buckethead (1969), India Arie (1975), and Tarana Burke (1973).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Jaroslav Pelikan ranks 524Before him are Bill Lawrence (1968), Julia Ward Howe (1819), John D. MacDonald (1916), Robert Richardson (1955), Sandra Brown (1948), and Mary McCarthy (1912). After him are A. Merritt (1884), Nathanael West (1903), Joanna Russ (1937), Maxwell Anderson (1888), Chris Morgan (1966), and William Wharton (1925).