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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 316,252 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Jacques Barzun is the 419th most popular historian (down from 319th in 2019), the 4,586th most popular biography from France (down from 4,073rd in 2019) and the 51st most popular French Historian.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Jacques Barzun ranks 419 out of 339. Before him are Albrecht Weber, Timothy D. Snyder, Orlando Figes, Horace Engdahl, Alessandro Barbero, and Stephen F. Cohen. After him are R. H. Tawney, Ivan Charota, Romila Thapar, Jacob Theodor Klein, Vasily Struve, and Lawrence Stone.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Jacques Barzun ranks 321. Before him are Shivakumara Swami, Rolf Jacobsen, Ernesto Albarracín, Art Babbitt, Albert Ammons, and Toni Frissell. After him are Eduardo Reyes Ortiz, Quiterio Olmedo, Sheldon Leonard, Gumercindo Gómez, Kalle Jalkanen, and Les Clark. Among people deceased in 2012, Jacques Barzun ranks 370. Before him are Earl Scruggs, Dick Clark, Vincenzo Consolo, Tony Martin, Théophile Abega, and Luke Askew. After him are Phillip V. Tobias, Aldo Maldera, Mitch Lucker, Ruy de Freitas, Charles Colson, and Fontella Bass.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Barzun ranks 4,586 out of 6,011. Before him are Lydie Salvayre (1948), Georges Gandil (1926), Kurt Zouma (1994), Marc Minkowski (1962), Cédric Pioline (1969), and Geoffrey Kondogbia (1993). After him are Albert Rust (1953), Henri Hérouin (1876), Birinus (600), Lilyan Chauvin (1925), Philippe Candeloro (1972), and Erick Mombaerts (1955).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Jacques Barzun ranks 51. Before him are Léon Gautier (1832), Gustave Lanson (1857), Jérôme Carcopino (1881), Marc Fumaroli (1932), Ernest Lavisse (1842), and Alain Daniélou (1907). After him are Rémi Mathis (1982).

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