1914 - 2007
Jean-Pierre Vernant (French: [vɛʁnɑ̃]; January 4, 1914 – January 9, 2007) was a French historian and anthropologist, specialist in ancient Greece. Influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vernant developed a structuralist approach to Greek myth, tragedy, and society which would itself be influential among classical scholars. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Pierre Vernant has received more than 91,715 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Jean-Pierre Vernant is the 100th most popular historian (up from 111th in 2019), the 1,594th most popular biography from France (up from 1,881st in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Historian.
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Among historians, Jean-Pierre Vernant ranks 100 out of 339. Before him are Al-Waqidi, Hieronymus Wolf, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, Barbara W. Tuchman, Hermann Alexander Diels, and Reinhart Koselleck. After him are Christoph Cellarius, Arnold Hauser, George Kedrenos, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani, and Hayden White.
747 - 823
HPI: 58.93
Rank: 94
1516 - 1580
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 95
1876 - 1925
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 96
1912 - 1989
HPI: 58.53
Rank: 97
1848 - 1922
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 98
1923 - 2006
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 99
1914 - 2007
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 100
1638 - 1707
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 101
1892 - 1978
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 102
1100 - 1100
HPI: 58.18
Rank: 103
1929 - 2023
HPI: 57.99
Rank: 104
897 - 967
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 105
1928 - 2018
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 106
Among people born in 1914, Jean-Pierre Vernant ranks 65. Before him are Jan Karski, Unity Mitford, Kurt Franz, Creighton Abrams, Lina Bo Bardi, and Edward T. Hall. After him are Martin Gardner, Pierre Balmain, Demetrios I of Constantinople, Carlo Maria Giulini, Archduchess Adelheid of Austria, and Asger Jorn. Among people deceased in 2007, Jean-Pierre Vernant ranks 60. Before him are John Backus, Norman Mailer, Taha Yassin Ramadan, Jupp Derwall, Anna Nicole Smith, and Mary Douglas. After him are André Gorz, Lady Bird Johnson, Jean-Marie Lustiger, Ashraf Marwan, Ira Levin, and Michel Serrault.
1914 - 2000
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 59
1914 - 1948
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 60
1914 - 1998
HPI: 58.47
Rank: 61
1914 - 1974
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 62
1914 - 1992
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 63
1914 - 2009
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 64
1914 - 2007
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 65
1914 - 2010
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 66
1914 - 1982
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 67
1914 - 1991
HPI: 58.16
Rank: 68
1914 - 2005
HPI: 58.10
Rank: 69
1914 - 1971
HPI: 58.04
Rank: 70
1914 - 1973
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 71
1924 - 2007
HPI: 58.59
Rank: 54
1923 - 2007
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 55
1938 - 2007
HPI: 58.42
Rank: 56
1927 - 2007
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 57
1967 - 2007
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 58
1921 - 2007
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 59
1914 - 2007
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 60
1923 - 2007
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 61
1912 - 2007
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 62
1926 - 2007
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 63
1944 - 2007
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 64
1929 - 2007
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 65
1928 - 2007
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 66
Among people born in France, Jean-Pierre Vernant ranks 1,594 out of 6,011. Before him are Jean-Marie Loret (1918), Lolo Ferrari (1963), Antoine Béchamp (1816), Princess Louise of Orléans (1882), Théodule-Armand Ribot (1839), and Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880). After him are Michel Debré (1912), Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817), Kylian Mbappé (1998), Philippe Soupault (1897), Pierre Levegh (1905), and Raymond Poulidor (1936).
1918 - 1985
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 1,588
1963 - 2000
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 1,589
1816 - 1908
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 1,590
1882 - 1958
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 1,591
1839 - 1916
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 1,592
1880 - 1906
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 1,593
1914 - 2007
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 1,594
1912 - 1996
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 1,595
1817 - 1879
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 1,596
1998 - Present
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 1,597
1897 - 1990
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 1,598
1905 - 1955
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 1,599
1936 - 2019
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 1,600
Among historians born in France, Jean-Pierre Vernant ranks 13. Before him are Lucien Febvre (1878), François Guizot (1787), Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540), Geoffrey of Villehardouin (1150), Gaston Maspero (1846), and Georges Duby (1919). After him are Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929), François Furet (1927), Pierre Nora (1931), Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme (1540), Guibert of Nogent (1055), and Augustin Thierry (1795).
1878 - 1956
HPI: 66.31
Rank: 7
1787 - 1874
HPI: 65.11
Rank: 8
1540 - 1609
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 9
1150 - 1210
HPI: 62.65
Rank: 10
1846 - 1916
HPI: 62.59
Rank: 11
1919 - 1996
HPI: 60.13
Rank: 12
1914 - 2007
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 13
1929 - 2023
HPI: 57.99
Rank: 14
1927 - 1997
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 15
1931 - Present
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 16
1540 - 1614
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 17
1055 - 1124
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 18
1795 - 1856
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 19