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Johann Gustav Droysen

1808 - 1884

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Johann Gustav Bernhard Droysen (; German: [ˈdʁɔʏzn̩]; 6 July 1808 – 19 June 1884) was a German historian. His history of Alexander the Great was the first work representing a new school of German historical thought that idealized power held by so-called "great" men. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Gustav Droysen is the 60th most popular historian (down from 54th in 2019), the 142nd most popular biography from Poland (up from 143rd in 2019) and the most popular Polish Historian.

Johann Gustav Droysen is most famous for his work on the history of Alexander the Great.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Johann Gustav Droysen ranks 60 out of 561Before him are Joseph Justus Scaliger, Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani, Justin, Francesco Guicciardini, Euhemerus, and Ernst Gombrich. After him are John Skylitzes, Heinrich Wölfflin, Tzvetan Todorov, Jared Diamond, Libanius, and Movses Khorenatsi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, Johann Gustav Droysen ranks 12Before him are Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria, Antonio Meucci, Jefferson Davis, Frederick VII of Denmark, Emir Abdelkader, and Gérard de Nerval. After him are David Strauss, Maria Malibran, Carl Spitzweg, Mohammad Shah Qajar, Thomas Cook, and George Robert Gray. Among people deceased in 1884, Johann Gustav Droysen ranks 9Before him are Maria Anna of Savoy, Elias Lönnrot, Marie Taglioni, Hermann Kolbe, Cetshwayo kaMpande, and Paul Morphy. After him are Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Marie Bashkirtseff, Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal, Fanny Elssler, and Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Johann Gustav Droysen ranks 142 out of 1,694Before him are Adolf Anderssen (1818), Alfred Tarski (1901), Albert Sabin (1906), Olga Tokarczuk (1962), Edward Sapir (1884), and Anna Anderson (1896). After him are Bronisław Komorowski (1952), Alexander Bogdanov (1873), Adolph Menzel (1815), Witold Gombrowicz (1904), Albert Marth (1828), and Géza I of Hungary (1040).

Among HISTORIANS In Poland

Among historians born in Poland, Johann Gustav Droysen ranks 1After him are Benzion Netanyahu (1910), Richard Pipes (1923), Gottfried Achenwall (1719), Otto von Gierke (1841), Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821), Ernst Kantorowicz (1895), Heinrich Graetz (1817), Zeev Sternhell (1935), Karl Otfried Müller (1797), Walter Laqueur (1921), and Israel Gutman (1923).