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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 104,589 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Edgar Quinet is the 184th most popular historian (down from 182nd in 2019), the 2,768th most popular biography from France (down from 2,724th in 2019) and the 26th most popular French Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Edgar Quinet ranks 184 out of 339Before him are Festus, Robert Conquest, Heinrich Graetz, Bernard Desclot, Hermann Abert, and Paisius of Hilendar. After him are Philistus, Edward Luttwak, Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, Mirkhvand, Gerardus Vossius, and Ferdinand Gregorovius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Edgar Quinet ranks 34Before him are Robert Stephenson, Henri Herz, Muhammad IV of Morocco, Jacques Charles François Sturm, Alexander Georg von Bunge, and Karl Gützlaff. After him are Alexander von Nordmann, Franz Lachner, Ludwig Richter, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, and Peter Chanel. Among people deceased in 1875, Edgar Quinet ranks 40Before him are Gabriel García Moreno, Frederick William, Elector of Hesse, Henry Wilson, Princess Alexandra of Bavaria, Antoine-Louis Barye, and Eugène Schneider. After him are January Suchodolski, Marc Seguin, John C. Breckinridge, Charles Elliot, Louise Farrenc, and Georg Herwegh.

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In France

Among people born in France, Edgar Quinet ranks 2,768 out of 6,011Before him are Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762), Oscar Cullmann (1902), Georges Leclanché (1836), Alan IV, Duke of Brittany (1060), Mélanie Bonis (1858), and Valérie Pécresse (1967). After him are Philibert Commerson (1727), Guillaume Canet (1973), Saint Faith (290), Jean Carmet (1920), Alain Corneau (1943), and Charles Nungesser (1892).

Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Edgar Quinet ranks 26Before him are Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange (1610), Charles Diehl (1859), Adémar de Chabannes (989), René Grousset (1885), Roger Chartier (1945), and Bernard Desclot (1201). After him are Henri Maspero (1883), Claude Cahen (1909), Georges Lefebvre (1874), Joseph de Guignes (1721), Paul Veyne (1930), and Marc Ferro (1924).