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Henri Pirenne

1862 - 1935

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Henri Pirenne (French: [piʁɛn]; 23 December 1862 – 24 October 1935) was a Belgian historian. A medievalist of Walloon descent, he wrote a multivolume history of Belgium in French and became a prominent public intellectual. Pirenne made a lasting contribution to the study of cities that was a controversial interpretation of the end of Roman civilization and the rebirth of medieval urban culture. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Pirenne has received more than 229,555 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Pirenne is the 49th most popular historian (up from 66th in 2019), the 79th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 110th in 2019) and the most popular Belgian Historian.

Henri Pirenne is most famous for his theory that the decline of the Roman Empire was due to the rise of Islam.

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Henri Pirenne ranks 49 out of 561. Before him are Erwin Panofsky, Euhemerus, François Guizot, Leonardo Bruni, Niketas Choniates, and Aby Warburg. After him are Ernst Gombrich, Joseph Justus Scaliger, Socrates of Constantinople, Jared Diamond, Johann Gustav Droysen, and Marcus Velleius Paterculus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Henri Pirenne ranks 19. Before him are Victoria of Baden, William Henry Bragg, Pyotr Stolypin, Joseph Merrick, Helene Schjerfbeck, and Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne. After him are J. Bruce Ismay, Emilio Salgari, Nikolai Yudenich, Louis Barthou, Gustav Ritter von Kahr, and Victor, Prince Napoléon. Among people deceased in 1935, Henri Pirenne ranks 22. Before him are Victor Grignard, Charles Richet, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, Henri Barbusse, Paul Dukas, and Hugo de Vries. After him are Komitas, Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia, Mihajlo Pupin, Max Liebermann, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, and Ali of Hejaz.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Henri Pirenne ranks 79 out of 1,190. Before him are Albert Claude (1899), Paul Delvaux (1897), Adrian Willaert (1490), Dominique Pire (1910), Émile Verhaeren (1855), and Corneille Heymans (1892). After him are Father Damien (1840), Peyo (1928), Ernest Solvay (1838), Paul-Henri Spaak (1899), Jacky Ickx (1945), and Étienne Lenoir (1822).

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Among HISTORIANS In Belgium

Among historians born in Belgium, Henri Pirenne ranks 1. After him are Julien Ries (1920), and Henri Grégoire (1881).

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