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Jean-Baptiste Du Halde

1674 - 1743

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Jean-Baptiste Du Halde (Chinese: 杜赫德, Pinyin: Dù Hèdé; 1 February 1674 – 18 August 1743) was a French Jesuit historian specializing in China. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Baptiste Du Halde has received more than 51,105 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Baptiste Du Halde is the 318th most popular historian, the 3,787th most popular biography from France and the 48th most popular French Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Jean-Baptiste Du Halde ranks 318 out of 561. Before him are Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius, Joseph-François Michaud, Miroslav Hroch, George Cœdès, Khalifah ibn Khayyat, and Domenico Losurdo. After him are Mikhail Pogodin, Cadmus of Miletus, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, Hafiz-i Abru, Abu Shama, and Johannes Meursius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1674, Jean-Baptiste Du Halde ranks 11. Before him are Reinhard Keiser, Jeremiah Clarke, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Margravine Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg, Marie of Lorraine, and Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. After him are Isaac Watts, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, and Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend. Among people deceased in 1743, Jean-Baptiste Du Halde ranks 14. Before him are Rafael Casanova, Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans, Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal, Princess Dorothea Wilhelmine of Saxe-Zeitz, Jai Singh II, and Augustine Washington. After him are Ogata Kenzan, Karl Friedrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Mikhail Zemtsov, and John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Du Halde ranks 3,787 out of 6,770. Before him are Micheline Ostermeyer (1922), Henri Deloge (1874), Charles Despiau (1874), Jacques Doniol-Valcroze (1920), Camille Mandrillon (1891), and Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923). After him are André Gill (1840), Jean Richard (1921), Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (1795), Louis de Freycinet (1779), Daniel Bensaïd (1946), and Gaston Tissandier (1843).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Jean-Baptiste Du Halde ranks 48. Before him are Pierre Vidal-Naquet (1930), Jean Delumeau (1923), Stéphane Courtois (1947), André Clot (1909), Joseph-François Michaud (1767), and George Cœdès (1886). After him are Alain Besançon (1932), Jérôme Carcopino (1881), Ernest Labrousse (1895), Ernest Lavisse (1842), Marc Fumaroli (1932), and Pierre Chaunu (1923).

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