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Henri Maspero

1883 - 1945

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Henri Paul Gaston Maspero (15 December 1883 – 17 March 1945) was a French sinologist and professor who contributed to a variety of topics relating to East Asia. Maspero is best known for his pioneering studies of Daoism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Maspero has received more than 50,947 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Maspero is the 200th most popular historian, the 2,922nd most popular biography from France and the 27th most popular French Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Henri Maspero ranks 200 out of 339Before him are Constantine Lascaris, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, W. Montgomery Watt, Frederick Jackson Turner, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, and Yitzhak Arad. After him are Halil İnalcık, Antiochus of Syracuse, Krste Misirkov, Sigfried Giedion, Évariste Lévi-Provençal, and Vasily Klyuchevsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Henri Maspero ranks 126Before him are Ikki Kita, Naoya Shiga, Olga Kameneva, Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Hasui Kawase, and Indalecio Prieto. After him are Vladimir Kappel, Paul Levi, Ramón Fonst, Václav Talich, Mihály Babits, and Otto Erich Deutsch. Among people deceased in 1945, Henri Maspero ranks 187Before him are Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, Petar Bojović, Jack Thayer, Johannes Popitz, Mihail Sebastian, and Adolf Bertram. After him are Gustav Cassel, Augustín Malár, Stamen Grigorov, Julius Leber, William Joseph Simmons, and Antal Szerb.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Maspero ranks 2,922 out of 6,011Before him are Serge Dassault (1925), André-Louis Debierne (1874), Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (1786), Rudolph Minkowski (1895), Ghislaine Maxwell (1961), and Pierre Benoit (1886). After him are Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval (1808), Eustace III, Count of Boulogne (1060), Jean Pierre Flourens (1794), Léon Gaumont (1864), Pierre Pigneau de Behaine (1741), and Jacques Babinet (1794).

Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Henri Maspero ranks 27Before him are Charles Diehl (1859), Adémar de Chabannes (989), René Grousset (1885), Roger Chartier (1945), Bernard Desclot (1201), and Edgar Quinet (1803). After him are Claude Cahen (1909), Georges Lefebvre (1874), Joseph de Guignes (1721), Paul Veyne (1930), Marc Ferro (1924), and Charles Rollin (1661).