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Alain Daniélou

1907 - 1994

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Alain Daniélou (4 October 1907 – 27 January 1994) was a French historian, Indologist, intellectual, musicologist, translator, writer and Western convert to and expert on the Shaivite branch of Hinduism. In 1991, he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, the highest honour conferred by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alain Daniélou has received more than 161,244 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Alain Daniélou is the 424th most popular historian (down from 349th in 2019), the 4,458th most popular biography from France (down from 4,021st in 2019) and the 55th most popular French Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Alain Daniélou ranks 424 out of 561. Before him are Isabella Bashmakova, Yehuda Bauer, Avi Shlaim, Eadmer, Ilya Berezin, and ʽAbd al-Qadir Badayuni. After him are G. M. Trevelyan, Frederic G. Kenyon, J. B. Bury, Andreas Maislinger, Constantine Paparrigopoulos, and Léon Gautier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Alain Daniélou ranks 280. Before him are Leigh Harline, Adelaide Lambert, Ethel Lackie, Eugène Chaboud, Eugène Guillevic, and Eric Brook. After him are Dionisio Mejía, Lotfia Elnadi, Hagigat Rzayeva, Henk Badings, Alfred Schmitt, and Leslie Charteris. Among people deceased in 1994, Alain Daniélou ranks 245. Before him are Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Ira Murchison, Roger Bocquet, Arati Saha, Gennady Voronov, and Willem Jacob Luyten. After him are Bud Houser, Frank Belknap Long, John Smith, Mercedes Comaposada, Rosa Chacel, and Zoltán Beke.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alain Daniélou ranks 4,458 out of 6,770. Before him are Nina Companeez (1937), Régine Deforges (1935), Charles Blondin (1824), Hélène Vincent (1943), Barbara Cassin (1947), and Michel Colombier (1939). After him are Emma Shapplin (1974), Henry Monnier (1799), Jean-Paul Proust (1940), Eugénie Cotton (1881), Jean Cayrol (1911), and William de Longchamp (1101).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Alain Daniélou ranks 55. Before him are Alain Besançon (1932), Jérôme Carcopino (1881), Ernest Labrousse (1895), Ernest Lavisse (1842), Marc Fumaroli (1932), and Pierre Chaunu (1923). After him are Léon Gautier (1832), Hugo Falcandus (1200), Michelle Perrot (1928), René Rémond (1918), Jacques Barzun (1907), and Rémi Mathis (1982).

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