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Jean-Jacques Barthélemy

1716 - 1795

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Jean-Jacques Barthélemy (20 January 1716 – 30 April 1795) was a French scholar who became the first person to decipher an extinct language. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Jacques Barthélemy has received more than 57,989 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Jean-Jacques Barthélemy is the 2,171st most popular writer (up from 3,029th in 2019), the 2,422nd most popular biography from France (up from 2,990th in 2019) and the 312th most popular French Writer.

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  • 7.11

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  • 1.74

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy ranks 2,171 out of 5,755Before him are Edwin Abbott Abbott, Sait Faik Abasıyanık, René Crevel, José-Maria de Heredia, Princess Alexandra of Bavaria, and Justus of Tiberias. After him are Movses Kaghankatvatsi, S. Ansky, Álvaro Mutis, Irvine Welsh, John Edward Williams, and Nima Yooshij.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1716, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy ranks 9Before him are Yosa Buson, James Lind, Louise Diane d'Orléans, Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia, Joseph-Marie Vien, and Thomas Gray. After him are Antonio de Ulloa, Pehr Kalm, Yuan Mei, Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, and Otto von Münchhausen. Among people deceased in 1795, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy ranks 16Before him are Samuel Wallis, Ahilyabai Holkar, Archduke Alexander Leopold of Austria, Pieter Boddaert, Josiah Wedgwood, and Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart. After him are Antonio de Ulloa, James Boswell, Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken, Michel Corrette, Francisco Bayeu y Subías, and Louis Eugene, Duke of Württemberg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy ranks 2,422 out of 6,011Before him are Marie Trintignant (1962), Paul Héroult (1863), Pierre Clémenti (1942), Judoc (600), Charles de Lannoy, 1st Prince of Sulmona (1487), and Georges Mathieu (1921). After him are Robert Badinter (1928), Magnus Felix Ennodius (473), Julien Benda (1867), Gustave Boulanger (1824), Yasmina Reza (1959), and Zygmunt Krasiński (1812).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy ranks 312Before him are Eugène Marin Labiche (1815), Albert Gleizes (1881), Marcel Achard (1899), Paul Féval, père (1816), Charles de Brosses (1709), and René Crevel (1900). After him are Magnus Felix Ennodius (473), Yasmina Reza (1959), Zygmunt Krasiński (1812), Walter of Châtillon (1135), Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (1960), and Édouard Drumont (1844).