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Anne Dacier

1645 - 1720

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Anne Le Fèvre Dacier (c. 1651 – 17 August 1720), better known during her lifetime as Madame Dacier, was a French scholar, translator, commentator and editor of the classics, including the Iliad and the Odyssey. She sought to champion ancient literature and used her great capabilities in Latin and Greek for this purpose as well as for her own financial support, producing a series of editions and translations from which she earned her living. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anne Dacier has received more than 43,078 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Anne Dacier is the 88th most popular linguist (up from 114th in 2019), the 3,100th most popular biography from France (up from 3,478th in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Linguist.

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  • 53.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Anne Dacier ranks 88 out of 214. Before her are Leo Spitzer, Jan Mukařovský, Johannes Aavik, Vasili Eroshenko, Alexander Gode, and Morris Swadesh. After her are Bernhard Karlgren, Albert Sechehaye, Adolf Erman, Stephen Krashen, Gustaf John Ramstedt, and George Abraham Grierson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1645, Anne Dacier ranks 10. Before her are Jean de La Bruyère, William Penn, Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, Aert de Gelder, Francis I Rákóczi, and Andreas Werckmeister. After her are Eusebio Kino, Louis Jolliet, Nicolas Lemery, François de Troy, Maria de Dominici, and Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin. Among people deceased in 1720, Anne Dacier ranks 9. Before her are Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg, Maria Barbara Bach, Edward England, Maria Margaretha Kirch, Abdul-Qādir Bedil, and Antoine Coysevox. After her are Peter Tordenskjold, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, Balaji Vishwanath, Nicolas de Fer, and Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway.

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In France

Among people born in France, Anne Dacier ranks 3,100 out of 6,770. Before her are Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville (1836), Serge Dassault (1925), Pascal Bruckner (1948), Claudin de Sermisy (1490), Thomas Corneille (1625), and Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano (1763). After her are André Prévost (1860), Louis-Mathieu Molé (1781), Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748), Emmanuel Frémiet (1824), Suzanne Curchod (1737), and Jean-Sifrein Maury (1746).

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Among LINGUISTS In France

Among linguists born in France, Anne Dacier ranks 9. Before her are Lucien Tesnière (1893), Alexandre de Rhodes (1591), André Martinet (1908), Louis Duchesne (1843), Louis de Beaufront (1855), and Émile Littré (1801). After her are Gaston Waringhien (1901), Sylvain Lévi (1863), and Arsène Darmesteter (1846).

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