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Guillaume Postel

1510 - 1581

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Guillaume Postel (25 March 1510 – 6 September 1581) was a French linguist, Orientalist, astronomer, Christian Kabbalist, diplomat, polyglot, professor, religious universalist, and writer. Born in the village of Barenton in Normandy, Postel made his way to Paris to further his education. While studying at the Collège Sainte-Barbe, he became acquainted with Ignatius of Loyola and many of the men who would become the founders of the Society of Jesus, retaining a lifelong affiliation with them. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guillaume Postel has received more than 107,612 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Guillaume Postel is the 333rd most popular mathematician (down from 280th in 2019), the 2,362nd most popular biography from France (down from 2,002nd in 2019) and the 57th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Guillaume Postel ranks 333 out of 1,004. Before him are Alain Connes, Johann Friedrich Pfaff, Enrico Bombieri, René-Louis Baire, Guidobaldo del Monte, and Sergei Sobolev. After him are Pietro Cataldi, Nicholas Mercator, Sergei Novikov, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin, and Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1510, Guillaume Postel ranks 21. Before him are Francesco de' Rossi, Jean Goujon, Antonio de Cabezón, Ivan Fyodorov, Jacob Clemens non Papa, and Bernard Palissy. After him are Margaret Paleologa, Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, Tullia d'Aragona, Diego Ortiz, Andrea Schiavone, and Ferenc Dávid. Among people deceased in 1581, Guillaume Postel ranks 7. Before him are Mahidevran, Bayinnaung, Guru Ram Das, Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia, Christopher Báthory, and Maria of Austria, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. After him are Duchess Sabine of Württemberg, Francis I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, Louis Bertrand, Honoré I, Lord of Monaco, Edmund Campion, and Frans Pourbus the Elder.

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In France

Among people born in France, Guillaume Postel ranks 2,362 out of 6,770. Before him are François Coppée (1842), Nicolas Chopin (1771), John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (1373), Peter Bartholomew (1100), Princess Françoise of Orléans (1844), and Peter I, Duke of Brittany (1191). After him are Jean Rapp (1771), Gaston Paris (1839), Line Renaud (1928), Jacques Loussier (1934), Jean Carmet (1920), and Aleksandar Petrović (1929).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Guillaume Postel ranks 57. Before him are Édouard Roche (1820), Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816), Oronce Finé (1494), Maurice René Fréchet (1878), Alain Connes (1947), and René-Louis Baire (1874). After him are Jean Dieudonné (1906), Antoine Gombaud (1607), Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (1735), Jean-Marie Duhamel (1797), Albert Girard (1595), and Pierre Alphonse Laurent (1813).

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