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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 notable 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 149,405 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Alain Daniélou is the 349th most popular historian, the 4,037th most popular biography from France and the 50th most popular French Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Alain Daniélou ranks 349 out of 339Before him are Joseph Hergenröther, Tom Segev, Ernest Lavisse, Neagu Djuvara, Riane Eisler, and Henri Grégoire. After him are Cyril Toumanoff, David Marshall Lang, Heinrich Ewald, Taner Akçam, Frances Yates, and Boris Rybakov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Alain Daniélou ranks 247Before him are Ramón Guzmán, Jacques Roumain, Sofia Yablonska, Roger Blin, Sanya Dharmasakti, and Alfred Schmitt. After him are Clifford Curzon, Lotfia Elnadi, Sven Andersson, Jean Van Houtte, August Hellemans, and John McIntire. Among people deceased in 1994, Alain Daniélou ranks 222Before him are Hermann Josef Abs, Jay Miner, Gilbert Roland, Gennady Voronov, Charlotte Auerbach, and William Higinbotham. After him are Alfredo Pérez, Roger Bocquet, Willem Jacob Luyten, József Háda, William Wilson Morgan, and Patrick O'Neal.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alain Daniélou ranks 4,037 out of 6,011Before him are Émile Lemoine (1840), Roger Blin (1907), François Sudre (1787), Jacques Rozier (1926), Vincent Candela (1973), and Alfred Schmitt (1907). After him are Alain Perrin (1956), Jacques Roubaud (1932), Julie Depardieu (1973), Aymeric Laporte (1994), Ernest Courtot de Cissey (1810), and Jean Lassalle (1955).

Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Alain Daniélou ranks 50Before him are Élisabeth Roudinesco (1944), Léon Gautier (1832), Gustave Lanson (1857), Jérôme Carcopino (1881), Marc Fumaroli (1932), and Ernest Lavisse (1842). After him are Jacques Barzun (1907) and Rémi Mathis (1982).