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Ernest Lavisse

1842 - 1922

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Ernest Lavisse (French: [lavis]; 17 December 1842 – 18 August 1922) was a French historian. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. Lavisse is also known for being one of the main creator of the roman national ("National myth", lit. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernest Lavisse has received more than 34,133 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Ernest Lavisse is the 354th most popular historian (down from 345th in 2019), the 4,056th most popular biography from France (down from 3,993rd in 2019) and the 52nd most popular French Historian.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Ernest Lavisse ranks 354 out of 561. Before him are William H. Prescott, John Keegan, Robert Darnton, Ernest Labrousse, Jacob Talmon, and Stanley G. Payne. After him are Helene Ahrweiler, Henri Grégoire, Marc Fumaroli, Peter Gay, Fritz Stern, and Ehsan Yarshater.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Ernest Lavisse ranks 74. Before him are Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, Antero de Quental, Infante João, Duke of Beja, Wilhelm Jordan, Carl Theodore Liebermann, and Nikolay Mikhaylovsky. After him are Pyotr Durnovo, Ferdinand Keller, Berthold Delbrück, Christian Lundeberg, Benoît-Constant Coquelin, and Teoberto Maler. Among people deceased in 1922, Ernest Lavisse ranks 99. Before him are Oscar Hertwig, Elizabeth Jane Gardner, Jorge Montt, Otto Lehmann, William Henry Hudson, and Takamine Jōkichi. After him are Iwan Bloch, Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Ferdinand Keller, José de Amézola y Aspizúa, Louis-Antoine Ranvier, and Berthold Delbrück.

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In France

Among people born in France, Ernest Lavisse ranks 4,056 out of 6,770. Before him are André Blondel (1863), Willy Ronis (1910), Marcel Arland (1899), Bernard Panafieu (1931), René Panhard (1841), and Émile Étienne Guimet (1836). After him are Robert Marchand (1911), Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1918), André Wilms (1947), Dominique Lavanant (1944), Auguste de Montferrand (1786), and Ernest Hébert (1817).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Ernest Lavisse ranks 52. Before him are Joseph-François Michaud (1767), George Cœdès (1886), Jean-Baptiste Du Halde (1674), Alain Besançon (1932), Jérôme Carcopino (1881), and Ernest Labrousse (1895). After him are Marc Fumaroli (1932), Pierre Chaunu (1923), Alain Daniélou (1907), Léon Gautier (1832), Hugo Falcandus (1200), and Michelle Perrot (1928).

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