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Henry Thomas Buckle

1821 - 1862

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Henry Thomas Buckle (24 November 1821 – 29 May 1862) was an English historian, the author of an unfinished History of Civilization and a strong amateur chess player. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Thomas Buckle has received more than 120,915 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Henry Thomas Buckle is the 115th most popular historian (down from 111th in 2019), the 1,219th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,245th in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Historian.

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  • 120k

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  • 63.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Henry Thomas Buckle ranks 115 out of 561. Before him are Paul Veyne, René Grousset, Árni Magnússon, August Ludwig von Schlözer, Richard Sennett, and Natalie Zemon Davis. After him are Richard Pipes, Leo the Deacon, Hayden White, Ibn Hibban, Arnold Hauser, and Michael Rostovtzeff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Henry Thomas Buckle ranks 27. Before him are Heinrich Barth, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Sebastian Kneipp, Giovanni Bottesini, Bartolomé Mitre, and Eduard Heine. After him are Leon Pinsker, Ernst Engel, Duchess Caroline Mariane of Mecklenburg, Tuone Udaina, Rachel Félix, and Félix Ziem. Among people deceased in 1862, Henry Thomas Buckle ranks 14. Before him are James Clark Ross, Božena Němcová, Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Fromental Halévy, Karl Nesselrode, and Elizabeth Siddal. After him are Princess Maria Antonia Koháry, Hon'inbō Shūsaku, Carlos Antonio López, Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, Simon Fraser, and Jeanne Duval.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Thomas Buckle ranks 1,219 out of 8,785. Before him are Robert Shaw (1927), Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763), Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (1375), Alistair MacLean (1922), Ruth Rendell (1930), and Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (1480). After him are David Thewlis (1963), Alasdair Gray (1934), Charles Algernon Parsons (1854), Black (1962), Stephen Hales (1677), and Dave Evans (1953).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Henry Thomas Buckle ranks 5. Before him are Arnold J. Toynbee (1889), Bede (672), Edward Gibbon (1737), and Bernard Lewis (1916). After him are Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800), C. Northcote Parkinson (1909), Peter Burke (1937), Ian Kershaw (1943), Norman Davies (1939), Arnold Toynbee (1852), and E. P. Thompson (1924).

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