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Gustave Lanson

1857 - 1934

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Gustave Lanson (5 August 1857 – 15 December 1934) was a French historian and literary critic. He taught at the Sorbonne and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gustave Lanson has received more than 40,836 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Gustave Lanson is the 318th most popular historian (down from 260th in 2019), the 3,806th most popular biography from France (down from 3,453rd in 2019) and the 46th most popular French Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Gustave Lanson ranks 318 out of 339Before him are Daniel J. Boorstin, Stephen E. Ambrose, Georg Gottfried Gervinus, Lothrop Stoddard, Léon Gautier, and Martin van Creveld. After him are Marin Drinov, Philip K. Hitti, Michael Aris, Jérôme Carcopino, Dino Compagni, and Henrik Gabriel Porthan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Gustave Lanson ranks 101Before him are Juan Luna, Helena Westermarck, Anita Augspurg, Friedrich von Ingenohl, Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, and Aleksei Evert. After him are Friedrich Reinitzer, Clarence Darrow, Hamad bin Thuwaini of Zanzibar, Constantin Coandă, Milton S. Hershey, and Theodor Curtius. Among people deceased in 1934, Gustave Lanson ranks 106Before him are Lucien Gaudin, Joachim Ringelnatz, Giovanni Brunero, Mikhail Matyushin, Gertrude Käsebier, and Jean-Baptiste Marchand. After him are Oskar von Miller, Caleb Bradham, Fritz Graebner, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, and Willem Kes.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gustave Lanson ranks 3,806 out of 6,011Before him are Edmond de Sélys Longchamps (1813), Richard Berry (1950), Abel Bonnard (1883), Léon Gautier (1832), Georges Speicher (1907), and Hervé Faye (1814). After him are Marie-Gabrielle Capet (1761), Marie Jules César Savigny (1777), Christophe Dugarry (1972), Paul Paray (1886), Michel Deguy (1930), and Antoine Nicolas Duchesne (1747).

Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Gustave Lanson ranks 46Before him are Emmanuel Todd (1951), Maxime Rodinson (1915), Joseph-François Michaud (1767), André Clot (1909), Élisabeth Roudinesco (1944), and Léon Gautier (1832). After him are Jérôme Carcopino (1881), Marc Fumaroli (1932), Ernest Lavisse (1842), Alain Daniélou (1907), Jacques Barzun (1907), and Rémi Mathis (1982).