1862 - 1935
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 193,339 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Henri Pirenne is the 64th most popular historian (down from 52nd in 2019), the 110th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 86th 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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Among historians, Henri Pirenne ranks 64 out of 339. Before him are Francesco Guicciardini, Joseph Justus Scaliger, Quintus Curtius Rufus, Geoffrey of Villehardouin, Gaston Maspero, and Heinrich Wölfflin. After him are Bernard Lewis, Theophylact Simocatta, Al-Baladhuri, Nicolaus of Damascus, Johann Jakob Bachofen, and Joannes Zonaras.
1483 - 1540
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 58
1540 - 1609
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 59
41 - 53
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 60
1150 - 1210
HPI: 62.65
Rank: 61
1846 - 1916
HPI: 62.59
Rank: 62
1864 - 1945
HPI: 62.58
Rank: 63
1862 - 1935
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 64
1916 - 2018
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 65
580 - 630
HPI: 62.47
Rank: 66
806 - 892
HPI: 62.43
Rank: 67
64 BC - 4
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 68
1815 - 1887
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 69
1074 - 1130
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 70
Among people born in 1862, Henri Pirenne ranks 22. Before him are J. Bruce Ismay, Hilma af Klint, Louis Barthou, Helene Schjerfbeck, Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and Nikolai Yudenich. After him are Emilio Salgari, Daniel Swarovski, Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Prince Henry of Prussia, Victor, Prince Napoléon, and Loie Fuller. Among people deceased in 1935, Henri Pirenne ranks 25. Before him are Jane Addams, Hugo de Vries, Hugo Junkers, John Macleod, Komitas, and Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia. After him are Josef Suk, Mihajlo Pupin, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, Panait Istrati, and Aron Nimzowitsch.
1862 - 1937
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 16
1862 - 1944
HPI: 63.93
Rank: 17
1862 - 1934
HPI: 63.80
Rank: 18
1862 - 1946
HPI: 63.67
Rank: 19
1862 - 1938
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 20
1862 - 1933
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 21
1862 - 1935
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 22
1862 - 1911
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 23
1862 - 1956
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 24
1862 - 1934
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 25
1862 - 1929
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 26
1862 - 1926
HPI: 61.26
Rank: 27
1862 - 1928
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 28
1860 - 1935
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 19
1848 - 1935
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 20
1859 - 1935
HPI: 63.80
Rank: 21
1876 - 1935
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 22
1869 - 1935
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 23
1895 - 1935
HPI: 63.21
Rank: 24
1862 - 1935
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 25
1874 - 1935
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 26
1858 - 1935
HPI: 62.06
Rank: 27
1855 - 1935
HPI: 61.95
Rank: 28
1846 - 1935
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 29
1884 - 1935
HPI: 61.67
Rank: 30
1886 - 1935
HPI: 61.43
Rank: 31
Among people born in Belgium, Henri Pirenne ranks 110 out of 1,019. Before him are Gerard de Ridefort (1141), Eugène Ysaÿe (1858), Paul Delvaux (1897), Frans Snyders (1579), Gertrude of Nivelles (626), and François Vatel (1631). After him are Henri Vieuxtemps (1820), Karel van Mander (1548), Jacob Obrecht (1457), Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria (1724), Henri, Count of Paris (1933), and Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg (1240).
1141 - 1189
HPI: 62.98
Rank: 104
1858 - 1931
HPI: 62.76
Rank: 105
1897 - 1994
HPI: 62.72
Rank: 106
1579 - 1657
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 107
626 - 659
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 108
1631 - 1671
HPI: 62.62
Rank: 109
1862 - 1935
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 110
1820 - 1881
HPI: 62.44
Rank: 111
1548 - 1606
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 112
1457 - 1505
HPI: 62.07
Rank: 113
1724 - 1799
HPI: 62.01
Rank: 114
1933 - 2019
HPI: 62.01
Rank: 115
1240 - 1288
HPI: 61.73
Rank: 116
Among historians born in Belgium, Henri Pirenne ranks 1. After him are Julien Ries (1920) and Henri Grégoire (1881).
1862 - 1935
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 1
1920 - 2013
HPI: 49.12
Rank: 2
1881 - 1964
HPI: 46.95
Rank: 3