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Otto von Gierke

1841 - 1921

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Otto Friedrich von Gierke, born Otto Friedrich Gierke (11 January 1841 – 10 October 1921), was a German legal scholar and historian. He is considered today as one of the most influential and important legal scholars of the 19th and 20th centuries. In his four-volume magnum opus entitled Das deutsche Genossenschaftsrecht (German Law of Associations), he pioneered the study of social groups and the importance of associations in German life, which stood between the divide of private and public law. During his career at Berlin University's law department, Gierke was a leading critic of the first draft of a new civil code for Imperial Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Otto von Gierke is the 169th most popular historian (up from 186th in 2019), the 492nd most popular biography from Poland (up from 537th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Polish Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Otto von Gierke ranks 169 out of 561. Before him are Ivane Javakhishvili, E. P. Thompson, Antiochus of Syracuse, C. Northcote Parkinson, Steven Runciman, and Ian Kershaw. After him are Mirkhvand, Antony Beevor, Charles Diehl, Ibn al-Faqih, Afet İnan, and Max Dvořák.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Otto von Gierke ranks 37. Before him are Eliza Orzeszkowa, Theodor von Oppolzer, Julius von Payer, Carl Tausig, Annie Chapman, and Eugenius Warming. After him are Prudente de Morais, Joseph Henry Blackburne, François-Alphonse Forel, Felip Pedrell, Mykhailo Drahomanov, and Józef Brandt. Among people deceased in 1921, Otto von Gierke ranks 51. Before him are Georg Ritter von Schönerer, Nikolay Gumilyov, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Juhani Aho, Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Émile Boutroux. After him are Joel Asaph Allen, Said Halim Pasha, Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi, Max Dvořák, Émile Combes, and Adolf von Hildebrand.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Otto von Gierke ranks 492 out of 1,694. Before him are Olga Boznańska (1865), Peter Lindbergh (1944), Elisabeth Hevelius (1647), Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812), Friedrich Graf von Wrangel (1784), and Elizabeth Richeza of Poland (1286). After him are Georg Heym (1887), Jack Tramiel (1928), Bronisława Dłuska (1865), Eduard Strasburger (1844), Jan Tarnowski (1488), and Richard Courant (1888).

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Among HISTORIANS In Poland

Among historians born in Poland, Otto von Gierke ranks 5. Before him are Johann Gustav Droysen (1808), Benzion Netanyahu (1910), Richard Pipes (1923), and Gottfried Achenwall (1719). After him are Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821), Ernst Kantorowicz (1895), Heinrich Graetz (1817), Zeev Sternhell (1935), Karl Otfried Müller (1797), Walter Laqueur (1921), and Israel Gutman (1923).

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