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Nikolaus Pevsner

1902 - 1983

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Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England (1951–74). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolaus Pevsner is the 444th most popular historian (up from 472nd in 2019), the 4,816th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,954th in 2019) and the 55th most popular German Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Nikolaus Pevsner ranks 444 out of 561. Before him are G. M. Trevelyan, Heinrich Ewald, Arthur Smith Woodward, Carl Benjamin Boyer, Ekvtime Takaishvili, and Mikheil Tsereteli. After him are Donald Nicol, Avi Shlaim, Drew Gilpin Faust, Martin Gilbert, John King Fairbank, and Martin Noth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Nikolaus Pevsner ranks 260. Before him are Arno Arthur Wachmann, Charles Lang, Francisco Martínez Soria, Théodore Monod, Julian Steward, and Stanley G. Weinbaum. After him are Martin Noth, Antonio Maquilón, Franco Giorgetti, Paul Bontemps, Bronisław Kaper, and Chet Miller. Among people deceased in 1983, Nikolaus Pevsner ranks 201. Before him are Bo Ekelund, Sabino Bilbao, Slim Pickens, Edward Lawry Norton, Mordecai Kaplan, and Earl Tupper. After him are Boris Hagelin, John Bodkin Adams, Franco Giorgetti, Gyula Lázár, Bronisław Kaper, and James Jamerson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Nikolaus Pevsner ranks 4,819 out of 7,253. Before him are Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch (1857), Ulf Timmermann (1962), Paul Peter Ewald (1888), Christiane Nord (1943), Rudolf Harbig (1913), and Franz Dienert (1900). After him are Otto Bütschli (1848), Karl Knies (1821), Charles Régnier (1914), Wolfgang Paul (1940), Julius Curtius (1877), and Aleksandra Khokhlova (1897).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Nikolaus Pevsner ranks 55. Before him are Heinrich Gelzer (1847), Friedrich Kittler (1943), Eberhard Jäckel (1929), Joseph Hergenröther (1824), Gerhard Ritter (1888), and Heinrich Ewald (1803). After him are Martin Noth (1902), Hermann Oldenberg (1854), Walter Jens (1923), Rainer Zitelmann (1957), Gerhard Weinberg (1928), and Oliver Grau (1965).

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