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Julius Wellhausen

1844 - 1918

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Julius Wellhausen (17 May 1844 – 7 January 1918) was a German biblical scholar and orientalist. In the course of his career, his research interest moved from Old Testament research through Islamic studies to New Testament scholarship. Wellhausen contributed to the composition history of the Pentateuch/Torah and studied the formative period of Islam. For the former, he is credited as one of the originators of the documentary hypothesis. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Julius Wellhausen is the 84th most popular historian (up from 85th in 2019), the 1,044th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,065th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Historian.

Julius Wellhausen is most famous for his documentary hypothesis, which argues that the Pentateuch was written by four different authors, and that the first five books of the Old Testament were written by a single author.

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Among historians, Julius Wellhausen ranks 84 out of 561. Before him are Gaston Maspero, Kenneth Clark, Nicolaus of Damascus, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., George Ostrogorsky, and Carlo Ginzburg. After him are Timaeus, Donna Haraway, Erich Auerbach, Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani, Georges Duby, and Al-Maqrizi.

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Among people born in 1844, Julius Wellhausen ranks 26. Before him are `Abdu'l-Bahá, Ismail Qemali, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Muhammad Ahmad, Charles-Marie Widor, and Abdur Rahman Khan. After him are Adolf Engler, Charles-Émile Reynaud, Friedrich Miescher, Sophia Tolstaya, Henry J. Heinz, and Karl Lueger. Among people deceased in 1918, Julius Wellhausen ranks 43. Before him are Paul Vidal de La Blache, Paul von Rennenkampf, Aleksandr Lyapunov, Frank Wedekind, Andrew Dickson White, and Eusebi Güell. After him are Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow, Charles-Émile Reynaud, István Tisza, Ivan Cankar, Koloman Moser, and César Ritz.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Julius Wellhausen ranks 1,044 out of 7,253. Before him are Boris Becker (1967), Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (1774), Johann Christoph Bach (1642), Maximilian Anton, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis (1831), Friedrich Jeckeln (1895), and William II of Württemberg (1848). After him are Friedrich Kuhlau (1786), Klaus Nomi (1944), Bruno of Querfurt (970), Albert of Riga (1165), Gotthard Kettler (1517), and Reinhard Scheer (1863).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Julius Wellhausen ranks 8. Before him are Leopold von Ranke (1795), Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779), Adam of Bremen (1100), Erwin Panofsky (1892), Samuel von Pufendorf (1632), and Aby Warburg (1866). After him are Erich Auerbach (1892), Hermann Alexander Diels (1848), Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (1876), Christoph Cellarius (1638), Reinhart Koselleck (1923), and August Ludwig von Schlözer (1735).

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