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Albert Soboul

1914 - 1982

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Albert Marius Soboul (27 April 1914 – 11 September 1982) was a historian of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods. A professor at the Sorbonne, he was chair of the History of the French Revolution and author of numerous influential works of history and historical interpretation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albert Soboul has received more than 90,616 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Albert Soboul is the 222nd most popular historian (up from 235th in 2019), the 86th most popular biography from Algeria (down from 84th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Algerian Historian.

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  • 91k

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  • 59.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Albert Soboul ranks 222 out of 561. Before him are Vasily Klyuchevsky, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Ivane Javakhishvili, John Foxe, Sigfried Giedion, and Ahmad Kasravi. After him are Moritz Cantor, Ghazar Parpetsi, Bernard Berenson, Henri Maspero, Peter Andreas Munch, and Georges Lefebvre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Albert Soboul ranks 147. Before him are Martin Ritt, Yuri Levitan, Anatole Abragam, Henri Langlois, Joe Shuster, and Tito Okello. After him are Kenny Clarke, Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, Sándor Képíró, Budd Schulberg, Baba Amte, and Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin. Among people deceased in 1982, Albert Soboul ranks 114. Before him are John Cheever, Riccardo Paletti, Khalid al-Islambouli, Hironori Ōtsuka, Georg Leibbrandt, and Georg Konrad Morgen. After him are Harold Sakata, Patrick Magee, Shiro Teshima, Harald Ertl, Sultan al-Atrash, and Hubert Lanz.

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In Algeria

Among people born in Algeria, Albert Soboul ranks 86 out of 213. Before him are Rachid Taha (1958), Maximilian of Tebessa (274), Lakhdar Belloumi (1958), Françoise Arnoul (1931), Thelma Schoonmaker (1940), and Mouloud Mammeri (1917). After him are Patrick Bruel (1959), Optatus (400), Rabah Saâdane (1946), Abderrahmane Farès (1911), Idir (1949), and Abdelaziz Djerad (1954).

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Among HISTORIANS In Algeria

Among historians born in Algeria, Albert Soboul ranks 2. Before him are Évariste Lévi-Provençal (1894).

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