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Henri Grégoire

1881 - 1964

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Henri Grégoire (French: [ɑ̃ʁi ɡʁeɡwaʁ]; Huy, Belgium, 21 March 1881 – 28 September 1964, Brussels, Belgium) was an eminent scholar of the Byzantine Empire, virtually the founder of Byzantine studies in Belgium. Grégoire spent most of his teaching career at the Université libre de Bruxelles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Grégoire has received more than 226,322 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Henri Grégoire is the 356th most popular historian (down from 348th in 2019), the 562nd most popular biography from Belgium (down from 555th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Belgian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Henri Grégoire ranks 356 out of 561. Before him are Robert Darnton, Ernest Labrousse, Jacob Talmon, Stanley G. Payne, Ernest Lavisse, and Helene Ahrweiler. After him are Marc Fumaroli, Peter Gay, Fritz Stern, Ehsan Yarshater, Géza Alföldy, and Franz Babinger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Henri Grégoire ranks 156. Before him are Jérôme Carcopino, Antti Hackzell, Eugen Bolz, Refik Saydam, Kanno Sugako, and Eulalio Gutiérrez. After him are Henri Laurent, Jess Willard, Clive Bell, Fernand Sanz, Otto Toeplitz, and Lewis Fry Richardson. Among people deceased in 1964, Henri Grégoire ranks 131. Before him are Jan de Vries, Giuseppe Amato, Seán O'Casey, Sophie Liebknecht, Peter Romanovsky, and Frederick Grace. After him are Clive Bell, Lauge Koch, Eddie Cantor, Hans Moser, Hermann Barrelet, and Vasily Agapkin.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Henri Grégoire ranks 562 out of 1,190. Before him are André Vandewyer (1909), Léon Semmeling (1940), Arnold Badjou (1909), Georges Eekhoud (1854), Charles de Broqueville (1860), and Yannick Carrasco (1993). After him are Arthur Legat (1898), Ferdinand Bracke (1939), Étienne-Gaspard Robert (1763), Georges Ronsse (1906), Claude Criquielion (1957), and Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella (1790).

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Among HISTORIANS In Belgium

Among historians born in Belgium, Henri Grégoire ranks 3. Before him are Henri Pirenne (1862), and Julien Ries (1920).

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