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Jacques Barzun

1907 - 2012

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Jacques Martin Barzun (; November 30, 1907 – October 25, 2012) was a French-born American historian known for his studies of the history of ideas and cultural history. He wrote about a wide range of subjects, including baseball, mystery novels, and classical music, and was also known as a philosopher of education. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Barzun has received more than 336,024 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Jacques Barzun is the 496th most popular historian (down from 419th in 2019), the 4,853rd most popular biography from France (down from 4,568th in 2019) and the 60th most popular French Historian.

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  • 45.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Jacques Barzun ranks 496 out of 561. Before him are American Horse, H. J. R. Murray, George Grote, Christopher Clark, Stephen F. Cohen, and Walter Jens. After him are Cyril Mango, Stephen Greenblatt, Simon Schama, Alessandro Barbero, Volodymyr Ivanovych Barvinok, and Horace Engdahl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Jacques Barzun ranks 331. Before him are Arturo Rodríguez, Oscarino Costa Silva, Les Clark, Robert John Braidwood, Ilias Tsirimokos, and Ernesto Albarracín. After him are Ruth Patrick, Charles Korvin, José Bustamante, August Hellemans, Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich, and Jules Roy. Among people deceased in 2012, Jacques Barzun ranks 367. Before him are Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, Aldo Maldera, Théophile Abega, Steve Franken, Jenni Rivera, and Anna-Lisa Eriksson. After him are Klaus Schütz, Sherman Hemsley, Pierre Adam, Alan Cottrell, Margaret Mahy, and Bernard Lovell.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Barzun ranks 4,853 out of 6,770. Before him are Florence Parly (1963), Thierry Tusseau (1958), François Asselineau (1957), Michel Sapin (1952), Bernard Le Coq (1950), and André Roosevelt (1879). After him are Alain Jessua (1932), Lily-Rose Depp (1999), Gilles Lellouche (1972), Nathalie Stutzmann (1965), Nicolas Hulot (1955), and Corinne Hermès (1961).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Jacques Barzun ranks 60. Before him are Pierre Chaunu (1923), Alain Daniélou (1907), Léon Gautier (1832), Hugo Falcandus (1200), Michelle Perrot (1928), and René Rémond (1918). After him are Rémi Mathis (1982).

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