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Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

1627 - 1704

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Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet is the 534th most popular writer (down from 499th in 2024), the 631st most popular biography from France (down from 584th in 2019) and the 89th most popular French Writer.

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet was a French bishop, theologian, and statesman. He is most famous for his "Discourse on Universal History" which is a history of the world from the time of Adam to the present.

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Among Writers

Among writers, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet ranks 534 out of 7,302. Before him are Tennessee Williams, Jules Michelet, J. M. Barrie, Vasily Grossman, Richard Bach, and Pierre de Ronsard. After him are Martial, Vasubandhu, Luo Guanzhong, Nâzım Hikmet, Osip Mandelstam, and Seneca the Elder.

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HPI: 72.25
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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1627, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet ranks 4. Before him are Robert Boyle, Turhan Hatice Sultan, and Shivaji. After him are Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, John Ray, Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Aşub Sultan, Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, Willem van Aelst, Petro Doroshenko, and Countess Louise Henriette of Nassau. Among people deceased in 1704, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet ranks 3. Before him are John Locke, and Marc-Antoine Charpentier. After him are Guillaume de l'Hôpital, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia, Georg Muffat, Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark, Jean-Baptiste Denys, Charles Plumier, Isabella Leonarda, and Selim I Giray.

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Robert Boyle
CHEMIST
1627 - 1691
HPI: 80.93
Rank: 1
Turhan Hatice Sultan
POLITICIAN
1627 - 1683
HPI: 77.96
Rank: 2
Shivaji
POLITICIAN
1627 - 1680
HPI: 72.81
Rank: 3
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
WRITER
1627 - 1704
HPI: 72.34
Rank: 4
Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier
POLITICIAN
1627 - 1693
HPI: 69.16
Rank: 5
John Ray
BIOLOGIST
1627 - 1705
HPI: 67.85
Rank: 6
Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten
PAINTER
1627 - 1678
HPI: 67.02
Rank: 7
Aşub Sultan
POLITICIAN
1627 - 1689
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 8
Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel
POLITICIAN
1627 - 1686
HPI: 66.67
Rank: 9
Willem van Aelst
PAINTER
1627 - 1679
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 10
Petro Doroshenko
POLITICIAN
1627 - 1698
HPI: 65.07
Rank: 11
Countess Louise Henriette of Nassau
POLITICIAN
1627 - 1667
HPI: 63.99
Rank: 12

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John Locke
PHILOSOPHER
1632 - 1704
HPI: 87.94
Rank: 1
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
COMPOSER
1645 - 1704
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 2
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
WRITER
1627 - 1704
HPI: 72.34
Rank: 3
Guillaume de l'Hôpital
MATHEMATICIAN
1661 - 1704
HPI: 72.08
Rank: 4
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
MUSICIAN
1644 - 1704
HPI: 70.59
Rank: 5
Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia
POLITICIAN
1657 - 1704
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 6
Georg Muffat
COMPOSER
1653 - 1704
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 7
Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark
NOBLEMAN
1649 - 1704
HPI: 63.89
Rank: 8
Jean-Baptiste Denys
PHYSICIAN
1643 - 1704
HPI: 62.77
Rank: 9
Charles Plumier
BIOLOGIST
1646 - 1704
HPI: 62.55
Rank: 10
Isabella Leonarda
COMPOSER
1620 - 1704
HPI: 62.20
Rank: 11
Selim I Giray
POLITICIAN
1631 - 1704
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 12