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George Cœdès

1886 - 1969

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George Cœdès (French: [ʒɔʁʒ sedɛs]; 10 August 1886 – 2 October 1969) was a French scholar of southeast Asian archaeology and history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Cœdès has received more than 85,026 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). George Cœdès is the 315th most popular historian (down from 269th in 2019), the 3,765th most popular biography from France (down from 3,368th in 2019) and the 47th most popular French Historian.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, George Cœdès ranks 315 out of 561. Before him are Gerda Lerner, André Clot, Edwin O. Reischauer, Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius, Joseph-François Michaud, and Miroslav Hroch. After him are Khalifah ibn Khayyat, Domenico Losurdo, Jean-Baptiste Du Halde, Mikhail Pogodin, Cadmus of Miletus, and Johann Gottfried Eichhorn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, George Cœdès ranks 183. Before him are Siegfried Sassoon, Felix Timmermans, Franz Josef Popp, Austin Osman Spare, Lucien Gaudin, and Hidetsugu Yagi. After him are Chester Conklin, G. I. Taylor, Muthulakshmi Reddy, August Rei, Aleksei Kruchyonykh, and Rebecca Clarke. Among people deceased in 1969, George Cœdès ranks 134. Before him are Friedrich von Huene, Harry Hammond Hess, Giovanni Urbani, Gabriel Chevallier, Silvestre Igoa, and Filipp Oktyabrsky. After him are Juan Modesto, Renato Cesarini, Tiburcio Carías Andino, Camille Mandrillon, Bobbie Rosenfeld, and Eero Berg.

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In France

Among people born in France, George Cœdès ranks 3,765 out of 6,770. Before him are Augustin-Alexandre Dumont (1801), Lily Pons (1898), François Cavanna (1923), Édouard Lartet (1801), Jean Mermoz (1901), and Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778). After him are Raimu (1883), Frank Leboeuf (1968), Nicolas Jenson (1420), Joachim Barrande (1799), Bruno Coulais (1954), and François Chabot (1756).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, George Cœdès ranks 47. Before him are Élisabeth Roudinesco (1944), Pierre Vidal-Naquet (1930), Jean Delumeau (1923), Stéphane Courtois (1947), André Clot (1909), and Joseph-François Michaud (1767). After him are Jean-Baptiste Du Halde (1674), Alain Besançon (1932), Jérôme Carcopino (1881), Ernest Labrousse (1895), Ernest Lavisse (1842), and Marc Fumaroli (1932).

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