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Hippolyte Taine

1828 - 1893

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Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (21 April 1828 – 5 March 1893) was a French historian, critic and philosopher. He was the chief theoretical influence on French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism. Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said to originate with him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hippolyte Taine has received more than 393,996 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Hippolyte Taine is the 30th most popular historian (up from 32nd in 2019), the 447th most popular biography from France (up from 454th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Historian.

Hippolyte Taine was a French philosopher and critic who is most famous for his work "History of English Literature."

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  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Hippolyte Taine ranks 30 out of 561. Before him are Fernand Braudel, Arrian, Johan Huizinga, Saxo Grammaticus, Marc Bloch, and Friedrich Carl von Savigny. After him are Bede, Jacob Burckhardt, Edward Gibbon, Ibn Ishaq, Quintus Curtius Rufus, and Eric Hobsbawm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1828, Hippolyte Taine ranks 7. Before him are Leo Tolstoy, Jules Verne, Henry Dunant, Henrik Ibsen, Saigō Takamori, and Rani of Jhansi. After him are Charbel Makhlouf, Randal Cremer, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Ferdinand Cohn, and Albert Marth. Among people deceased in 1893, Hippolyte Taine ranks 6. Before him are Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Gounod, Jean-Martin Charcot, and Patrice de MacMahon. After him are Alexander of Battenberg, Rutherford B. Hayes, Jan Matejko, Edwin Booth, Josef Stefan, and Jules Ferry.

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In France

Among people born in France, Hippolyte Taine ranks 447 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845), Arthur de Gobineau (1816), Georges Bataille (1897), Joan I of Navarre (1273), Jean Genet (1910), and Elisabeth of France (1602). After him are Anouk Aimée (1932), Isabelle Huppert (1953), Abraham de Moivre (1667), Charles Le Brun (1619), Louis III of France (863), and Suzanne Valadon (1865).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Hippolyte Taine ranks 5. Before him are Tacitus (54), Alexis de Tocqueville (1805), Fernand Braudel (1902), and Marc Bloch (1886). After him are Jacques Le Goff (1924), Lucien Febvre (1878), François Guizot (1787), Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540), Geoffrey of Villehardouin (1150), Gaston Maspero (1846), and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929).

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