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Karl Krumbacher

1856 - 1909

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Karl Krumbacher (23 September 1856 – 12 December 1909) was a German scholar who was an expert on Byzantine Greek language, literature, history and culture. He was one of the principal founders of Byzantine Studies as an independent academic discipline in modern universities. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Krumbacher is the 204th most popular historian (down from 171st in 2019), the 2,739th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,407th in 2019) and the 25th most popular German Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Karl Krumbacher ranks 204 out of 561Before him are Slobodan Jovanović, Christian Gottlob Heyne, H. A. R. Gibb, Howard Zinn, William of Malmesbury, and Philipp Spitta. After him are Pei Songzhi, Egon Friedell, Peter Andreas Munch, Simon Dubnow, Edgar Quinet, and Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Karl Krumbacher ranks 62Before him are Karl Lamprecht, José Batlle y Ordóñez, Louise Catherine Breslau, Dimitar Blagoev, Alexander Izvolsky, and Stevan Mokranjac. After him are Mahmud Shevket Pasha, Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt, Yu Kil-chun, Semyon Alapin, Felix Mottl, and Rudolf Stammler. Among people deceased in 1909, Karl Krumbacher ranks 43Before him are Abdul Karim, Friedrich Martens, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Walther Ritz, Joshua Slocum, and Margarete Steiff. After him are Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, Zhang Zhidong, John Millington Synge, Mieczysław Karłowicz, Charles-Louis Philippe, and Catulle Mendès.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Krumbacher ranks 2,740 out of 7,253Before him are Rudolf Peierls (1907), Adolf Hühnlein (1881), Joseph Gaertner (1732), Paul de Lagarde (1827), Philipp Spitta (1841), and Adolf William, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (1632). After him are Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1753), Max Slevogt (1868), Erich Hückel (1896), Doro (1964), Andrzej Seweryn (1946), and Blasius Merrem (1761).

Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Karl Krumbacher ranks 25Before him are Hermann Abert (1871), Jan Assmann (1938), Karl Lamprecht (1856), Friedrich Meinecke (1862), Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729), and Philipp Spitta (1841). After him are Moritz Cantor (1829), Johannes Aventinus (1477), Gerardus Vossius (1577), Fritz Fischer (1908), Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim (1701), and Hermann Conring (1606).