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J. B. Bury

1861 - 1927

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John Bagnell Bury (UK: ; 16 October 1861 – 1 June 1927) was an Anglo-Irish historian, classical scholar, Medieval Roman historian and philologist. He objected to the label "Byzantinist" explicitly in the preface to the 1889 edition of his Later Roman Empire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of J. B. Bury has received more than 216,254 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. J. B. Bury is the 383rd most popular historian (down from 261st in 2019), the 227th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 165th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Irish Historian.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, J. B. Bury ranks 383 out of 339. Before him are Anton Heinrich Springer, Marsyas of Pella, William Robertson, Benny Morris, Timofey Granovsky, and Simon Janashia. After him are Christopher Lasch, Carl Benjamin Boyer, Miguel León-Portilla, Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Jens, and Richard J. Evans.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, J. B. Bury ranks 117. Before him are Friedrich Engel, Anna Brigadere, Aimé Haegeman, Reginald Wingate, Arthur E. Kennelly, and Theodore Roberts. After him are Marcellin Boule, Paul Matschie, Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann, Racho Petrov, Luigi Galleani, and Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten. Among people deceased in 1927, J. B. Bury ranks 112. Before him are Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, Fernand de Langle de Cary, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Marcus Loew, Ricardo Güiraldes, and Leonard Nelson. After him are Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez, Klaus Berntsen, Reginald Dyer, Anna Golubkina, and Max Weiss.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, J. B. Bury ranks 227 out of 501. Before him are Michael Scott (1959), Luke Kelly (1940), William McGonagall (1825), William Henry Harvey (1811), Robert O'Hara Burke (1821), and Eoin Colfer (1965). After him are Patrick Ryan (1881), Steve Barron (1956), Agnes Mary Clerke (1842), Wolfe Tone (1763), Ciarán of Clonmacnoise (516), and Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833).

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Among HISTORIANS In Ireland

Among historians born in Ireland, J. B. Bury ranks 2. Before him are Peter Brown (1935).

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