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Edgar Quinet

1803 - 1875

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Edgar Quinet (French: [kinɛ]; 17 February 1803 – 27 March 1875) was a French historian and intellectual. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edgar Quinet has received more than 113,109 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Edgar Quinet is the 168th most popular historian (up from 184th in 2019), the 2,502nd most popular biography from France (up from 2,759th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Historian.

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  • 110k

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  • 55.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Edgar Quinet ranks 168 out of 561. Before him are Hermann Abert, Ibn Wahshiyya, E. P. Thompson, Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi, Guibert of Nogent, and Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad. After him are Sozomen, Ernst Kantorowicz, Karl Krumbacher, Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, Howard Zinn, and Charles Diehl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Edgar Quinet ranks 34. Before him are John Sutter, Robert Stephenson, Henri Herz, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, Karl Gützlaff, and Heinrich Wilhelm Dove. After him are Alexander von Nordmann, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Elisa Radziwiłł, Ludwig Richter, Franz Lachner, and Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias. Among people deceased in 1875, Edgar Quinet ranks 33. Before him are Friedrich Albert Lange, Svetozar Marković, Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria, Henri Labrouste, and Gabriel García Moreno. After him are Antoine-Louis Barye, Frederick William, Elector of Hesse, Henry Wilson, Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain, January Suchodolski, and Louise Farrenc.

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In France

Among people born in France, Edgar Quinet ranks 2,502 out of 6,770. Before him are Georges Leclanché (1836), Magnus Felix Ennodius (473), Louis de Beaufront (1855), Madeleine Sophie Barat (1779), Thomas, Count of Flanders (1199), and Adolphe Marbot (1781). After him are Countess Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1700), René Laloux (1929), Mamertus (401), Bernard Farcy (1949), Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans (1328), and Antoine Gombaud (1607).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Edgar Quinet ranks 23. Before him are Emmanuel Todd (1951), François Furet (1927), Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme (1540), Augustin Thierry (1795), Pierre Nora (1931), and Guibert of Nogent (1055). After him are Charles Diehl (1859), Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange (1610), Roger Chartier (1945), Adémar de Chabannes (989), Henri Maspero (1883), and Georges Lefebvre (1874).

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