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Edward Gibbon

1737 - 1794

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Edward Gibbon (; 8 May 1737 – 16 January 1794) was an English essayist, historian, and politician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Gibbon has received more than 1,640,168 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Edward Gibbon is the 33rd most popular historian (up from 34th in 2019), the 287th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 313th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Historian.

Edward Gibbon is most famous for his book, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 74

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Edward Gibbon ranks 33 out of 561. Before him are Saxo Grammaticus, Marc Bloch, Friedrich Carl von Savigny, Hippolyte Taine, Bede, and Jacob Burckhardt. After him are Ibn Ishaq, Quintus Curtius Rufus, Eric Hobsbawm, Jacques Le Goff, Adam of Bremen, and Ali ibn al-Athir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1737, Edward Gibbon ranks 3. Before him are Luigi Galvani, and Johann Friedrich Struensee. After him are Thomas Paine, Michael Haydn, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Louise of France, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov, Josef Mysliveček, and Tokugawa Ieharu. Among people deceased in 1794, Edward Gibbon ranks 9. Before him are Georges Danton, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, Cesare Beccaria, Camille Desmoulins, Marquis de Condorcet, and Alexandre de Beauharnais. After him are Jacques Hébert, Élisabeth of France, André Chénier, Georges Couthon, Gregory Skovoroda, and Augustin Robespierre.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Gibbon ranks 287 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Andrews (1873), Henrietta of England (1644), Timothy Dalton (1946), Kate Bush (1958), David Suchet (1946), and Richard Cromwell (1626). After him are George Michael (1963), John Logie Baird (1888), Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943), Marianne Faithfull (1946), Charlie Watts (1941), and Ritchie Blackmore (1945).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Edward Gibbon ranks 3. Before him are Arnold J. Toynbee (1889), and Bede (672). After him are Bernard Lewis (1916), Henry Thomas Buckle (1821), Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800), C. Northcote Parkinson (1909), Peter Burke (1937), Ian Kershaw (1943), Norman Davies (1939), Arnold Toynbee (1852), and E. P. Thompson (1924).

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