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Jean Astruc

1684 - 1766

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Jean Astruc (19 March 1684, in Sauve, France – 5 May 1766, in Paris) was a professor of medicine in France at Montpellier and Paris, who wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and venereal diseases, and also, with a small anonymously published book, played a fundamental part in the origins of critical textual analysis of works of the Bible. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Astruc has received more than 62,767 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Jean Astruc is the 2,377th most popular writer (down from 2,047th in 2019), the 2,604th most popular biography from France (down from 2,208th in 2019) and the 337th most popular French Writer.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.95

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  • 1.79

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jean Astruc ranks 2,377 out of 5,755. Before him are Consort Ban, Friedrich von Lütke, Gottschalk of Orbais, Dezső Kosztolányi, Anne Golon, and Fyodor Sologub. After him are Agathangelos, Verrius Flaccus, Dionysios Solomos, Giovanni de' Bardi, Al-Sharif al-Radi, and Franz Overbeck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1684, Jean Astruc ranks 12. Before him are Francesco Durante, Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg, Johann Gottfried Walther, Edward Vernon, Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, and Robert Maynard. After him are Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle, Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg, Matthias Bel, Jean-Baptiste van Loo, Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, and Francesco Manfredini. Among people deceased in 1766, Jean Astruc ranks 12. Before him are Giuseppe Castiglione, Leopold Joseph von Daun, Jean-Marc Nattier, Thomas Abbt, Johann Christoph Gottsched, and Marie Victoire de Noailles. After him are Adrien Maurice de Noailles, Dominikus Zimmermann, François-Jean de la Barre, Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Ivan Polzunov, and Jane Colden.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Astruc ranks 2,604 out of 6,011. Before him are Charles Lecocq (1832), Anne Golon (1921), Margaret I, Countess of Flanders (1145), Marguerite Gérard (1761), Zizi Jeanmaire (1924), and Pōmare IV (1813). After him are René Grousset (1885), Nicolas Gombert (1495), Auguste Bravais (1811), Charles, Count of Soissons (1566), Pierre Fauchard (1679), and Guy Ligier (1930).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean Astruc ranks 337. Before him are Jean Bruller (1902), Joseph Joffo (1931), Henri Desgrange (1865), Théophile de Viau (1590), Albert Robida (1848), and Anne Golon (1921). After him are Champfleury (1821), Savitri Devi (1905), Sextus Pompeius Festus (150), Philippe de Mornay (1549), Petrus Comestor (1100), and André Frossard (1915).

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