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Raul Hilberg

1926 - 2007

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Raul Hilberg (June 2, 1926 – August 4, 2007) was a Jewish Austrian-born American political scientist and historian. He was widely considered to be the preeminent scholar on the Holocaust. Christopher R. Browning has called him the founding father of Holocaust studies and his three-volume, 1,273-page magnum opus, The Destruction of the European Jews, is regarded as seminal for research into the Nazi Final Solution. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Raul Hilberg is the 2,663rd most popular writer (down from 2,141st in 2019), the 563rd most popular biography from Austria (down from 476th in 2019) and the 41st most popular Austrian Writer.

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Among writers, Raul Hilberg ranks 2,663 out of 7,302. Before him are Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Stanko Vraz, Vydūnas, Betti Alver, John Millington Synge, and Praxilla. After him are John Wyndham, Louise Colet, Margaret Fuller, Kjell Askildsen, María Elena Walsh, and Xue Tao.

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Among people born in 1926, Raul Hilberg ranks 182. Before him are Kees Rijvers, Lou Ottens, Vicente Aranda, Jaba Ioseliani, Paul Janssen, and Richard Anderson. After him are Lenny Montana, Shin Sang-ok, André Delvaux, Konstantin Feoktistov, Mieczysław Rakowski, and Alfred Körner. Among people deceased in 2007, Raul Hilberg ranks 150. Before him are John P. Ryan, Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, Jörg Immendorff, Soe Win, Guy de Rothschild, and Osvaldo Cavandoli. After him are Naziha al-Dulaimi, Alfonso López Michelsen, Tosiwo Nakayama, Manuel Bento, Ichiji Otani, and Eleonora Rossi Drago.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Raul Hilberg ranks 563 out of 1,424. Before him are Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria (1629), Dezső Kosztolányi (1885), Karl Rappan (1905), Annemarie Moser-Pröll (1953), Berta Karlik (1904), and Gottfried Helnwein (1948). After him are Friedrich Welwitsch (1806), Ulrich von Liechtenstein (1200), Joseph Leopold Eybler (1765), Fritz Machlup (1902), Barbara Valentin (1940), and Antun Augustinčić (1900).

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Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, Raul Hilberg ranks 41. Before him are Eva Schloss (1929), Ilse Aichinger (1921), Alfréd Wetzler (1918), Heimito von Doderer (1896), Ceija Stojka (1933), and Dezső Kosztolányi (1885). After him are Ulrich von Liechtenstein (1200), Pauline von Metternich (1836), Johannes Mario Simmel (1924), Paula von Preradović (1887), Erich Fried (1921), and Barbara Frischmuth (1941).

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