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Walter Jens

1923 - 2013

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Walter Jens (8 March 1923 – 9 June 2013) was a German philologist, literature historian, critic, university professor and writer. He was born in Hamburg, and attended the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums from 1933 to 1941, when he gained his Abitur, before studying at the University of Hamburg. In the early 1940s, Jens joined the NSDAP. He denied having applied for membership actively and claimed that he had become a member automatically because he was a member of the Hitler Youth and that he never received a membership card. During World War II, he earned a doctorate in Freiburg with a work about Sophocles' tragedy and habilitated at age 26 with the work Tacitus und die Freiheit (Tacitus and Freedom) at the University of Tübingen. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Jens is the 483rd most popular historian (up from 495th in 2019), the 5,054th most popular biography from Germany (up from 5,126th in 2019) and the 58th most popular German Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Walter Jens ranks 483 out of 561. Before him are Niall Ferguson, Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, Sheila Fitzpatrick, William Robertson, Robert Jay Lifton, and William Dalrymple. After him are Thomas Fuller, Lothrop Stoddard, Simon Janashia, Timofey Granovsky, Aleks Buda, and Stephen F. Cohen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Walter Jens ranks 384. Before him are Hrant Shahinyan, Ine Schäffer, Buddy DeFranco, Rose Marie, Harish-Chandra, and Bruno Zumino. After him are Kenneth Lane, Forbes Burnham, Cyril M. Kornbluth, László Jeney, Natália Correia, and Samiha Khalil. Among people deceased in 2013, Walter Jens ranks 379. Before him are Harold Agnew, Peter Gilmore, Lucyna Winnicka, Sakine Cansız, Edward Stevens, and Nobuyuki Aihara. After him are Josef Němec, Regina Bianchi, Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Amar Bose, Stan Musial, and Costică Ștefănescu.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walter Jens ranks 5,057 out of 7,253. Before him are Katja Riemann (1963), Erich Kähler (1906), Franz Sigel (1824), Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann (1785), Kevin Trapp (1990), and Andrea Pollack (1961). After him are Norbert Walter-Borjans (1952), Eduard David (1863), Marina Lewycka (1946), Yıldıray Baştürk (1978), Wolfgang Krull (1899), and Günter de Bruyn (1926).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Walter Jens ranks 58. Before him are Joseph Hergenröther (1824), Gerhard Ritter (1888), Heinrich Ewald (1803), Nikolaus Pevsner (1902), Martin Noth (1902), and Hermann Oldenberg (1854). After him are Rainer Zitelmann (1957), Gerhard Weinberg (1928), and Oliver Grau (1965).

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