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Walter Laqueur

1921 - 2018

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Walter Ze'ev Laqueur (26 May 1921 – 30 September 2018) was a German-born American historian, journalist, political commentator, and Holocaust survivor. He was an influential scholar on the subjects of terrorism and political violence. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Laqueur is the 310th most popular historian (down from 206th in 2019), the 772nd most popular biography from Poland (down from 615th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Polish Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Walter Laqueur ranks 310 out of 561. Before him are Paul Kennedy, Gerda Lerner, Filippo Baldinucci, Charles Barbier de Meynard, Émile Mâle, and Yehuda Bauer. After him are Vakhushti of Kartli, Jean-Baptiste Du Halde, Marsyas of Pella, Jacob Theodor Klein, ʽAbd al-Qadir Badayuni, and Pierre Vidal-Naquet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Walter Laqueur ranks 224. Before him are Søren Kam, Alexander Kemurdzhian, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Gunnar Eriksson, Wadih El Safi, and Augusto Monterroso. After him are Milorad Pavić, Brian Keith, Imre Kovács, Willem Frederik Hermans, Sune Andersson, and Ursula Franklin. Among people deceased in 2018, Walter Laqueur ranks 225. Before him are Philip Bosco, Peter Thompson, Fernando del Paso, Kim Larsen, Stanislav Govorukhin, and Lindsay Kemp. After him are Antonio Valentín Angelillo, Tab Hunter, Tatyana Kuznetsova, Ramón Chao, William Goldman, and Dobri Dobrev.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Walter Laqueur ranks 772 out of 1,694. Before him are Wojciech Has (1925), Stanisław Szukalski (1893), Gisela Hahn (1943), Theodor Kotschy (1813), Johann Gottfried Piefke (1815), and Wojciech Zabłocki (1930). After him are Dagmara Domińczyk (1976), Arthur Moritz Schoenflies (1853), Rudolf Ramek (1881), Rainer Barzel (1924), Władysław Taczanowski (1819), and Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (1889).

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Among HISTORIANS In Poland

Among historians born in Poland, Walter Laqueur ranks 11. Before him are Otto von Gierke (1841), Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821), Ernst Kantorowicz (1895), Heinrich Graetz (1817), Zeev Sternhell (1935), and Karl Otfried Müller (1797). After him are Israel Gutman (1923), Jacob Talmon (1916), Fritz Stern (1926), Jan T. Gross (1947), Franz Theodor Kugler (1808), and Albrecht Weber (1825).

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