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Fernand Braudel

1902 - 1985

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Fernand Paul Achille Braudel (French: [fɛʁnɑ̃ bʁodɛl]; 24 August 1902 – 27 November 1985) was a French historian. His scholarship focused on three main projects: The Mediterranean (1923–49, then 1949–66), Civilization and Capitalism (1955–79), and the unfinished Identity of France (1970–85). He was a member of the Annales School of French historiography and social history in the 1950s and 1960s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fernand Braudel has received more than 794,770 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Fernand Braudel is the 24th most popular historian (down from 21st in 2019), the 345th most popular biography from France (down from 313th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Historian.

Fernand Braudel was a French historian who is most famous for his work on the three-part division of history into the long-term, medium-term, and short-term.

Memorability Metrics

  • 790k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Fernand Braudels by language

Over the past year Fernand Braudel has had the most page views in the with 92,503 views, followed by French (61,281), and Spanish (31,188). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Azerbaijani (171.76%), Cantonese (139.93%), and Kazakh (124.48%)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Fernand Braudel ranks 24 out of 561. Before him are Cassius Dio, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Arnold J. Toynbee, Leopold von Ranke, Procopius, and Ibn Kathir. After him are Arrian, Johan Huizinga, Saxo Grammaticus, Marc Bloch, Friedrich Carl von Savigny, and Hippolyte Taine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Fernand Braudel ranks 14. Before him are Carl Rogers, John Steinbeck, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Halldór Laxness, Talcott Parsons, and Eugene Wigner. After him are Saud of Saudi Arabia, Nâzım Hikmet, Alfred Kastler, Kurt Alder, Barbara McClintock, and Walter Houser Brattain. Among people deceased in 1985, Fernand Braudel ranks 9. Before him are Yul Brynner, Konstantin Chernenko, Heinrich Böll, Italo Calvino, Carl Schmitt, and Simone Signoret. After him are Orson Welles, László Bíró, Jean Dubuffet, Rock Hudson, Simon Kuznets, and Charles Francis Richter.

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In France

Among people born in France, Fernand Braudel ranks 345 out of 6,770. Before him are Robert I, Duke of Normandy (1010), Charles Messier (1730), Louis de Broglie (1892), Claude Bernard (1813), John the Fearless (1371), and Raymond Kopa (1931). After him are Paul Barras (1755), Antonin Artaud (1896), Françoise Sagan (1935), Jean-Louis Trintignant (1930), Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633), and Brigitte Macron (1953).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Fernand Braudel ranks 3. Before him are Tacitus (54), and Alexis de Tocqueville (1805). After him are Marc Bloch (1886), Hippolyte Taine (1828), Jacques Le Goff (1924), Lucien Febvre (1878), François Guizot (1787), Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540), Geoffrey of Villehardouin (1150), Gaston Maspero (1846), and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929).

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