WRITER

Jacques Amyot

1513 - 1593

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Jacques Amyot (French: [amjo]; 30 October 1513 – 6 February 1593), French Renaissance bishop, scholar, writer and translator, was born of poor parents, at Melun. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Amyot has received more than 76,284 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 26 in 2019). Jacques Amyot is the 1,989th most popular writer (up from 2,017th in 2019), the 2,242nd most popular biography from France (up from 2,280th in 2019) and the 282nd most popular French Writer.

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jacques Amyot ranks 1,989 out of 7,302. Before him are Elena Poniatowska, Sholem Schwarzbard, Cristóbal de Morales, Ahad Ha'am, Alexander Fadeyev, and Terentianus. After him are Hanns Heinz Ewers, Lady Randolph Churchill, Vsevolod Garshin, Cornell Woolrich, Jaume Cabré, and Ji Kang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1513, Jacques Amyot ranks 3. Before him are Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, and Hedwig Jagiellon, Electress of Brandenburg. After him are Louis, Duke of Montpensier, Pirro Ligorio, Michael Baius, John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Küstrin, and Daniele Barbaro. Among people deceased in 1593, Jacques Amyot ranks 6. Before him are Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Christopher Marlowe, Emperor Ōgimachi, Li Shizhen, and Juan de Herrera. After him are Symon Budny, Maciej Stryjkowski, Xu Wei, Hans Bol, Louis III, Duke of Württemberg, and Abd al-Samad.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Amyot ranks 2,242 out of 6,770. Before him are Sébastien Japrisot (1931), Elena Poniatowska (1932), Léon Brillouin (1889), Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (1712), Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans (1648), and Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823). After him are Joseph Monier (1823), René Fonck (1894), Thierry Sabine (1949), William IV, Duke of Aquitaine (935), Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788), and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jacques Amyot ranks 282. Before him are Gustave Kahn (1859), Fred Vargas (1957), Christian Jacq (1947), Étienne Dolet (1509), Sébastien Japrisot (1931), and Elena Poniatowska (1932). After him are Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786), Eugène Marin Labiche (1815), Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis (1746), Julien Gracq (1910), Matthieu Ricard (1946), and Jean Paulhan (1884).

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