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Joseph Justus Scaliger

1540 - 1609

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Joseph Justus Scaliger (; 5 August 1540 – 21 January 1609) was a Franco-Italian Calvinist religious leader and scholar, known for expanding the notion of classical history from Greek and Ancient Roman history to include Persian, Babylonian, Jewish and Ancient Egyptian history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Justus Scaliger has received more than 198,636 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Joseph Justus Scaliger is the 51st most popular historian (up from 61st in 2019), the 769th most popular biography from France (up from 925th in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Historian.

Joseph Justus Scaliger was a French scholar and mathematician who is most famous for his work in the fields of chronology and historical linguistics.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Joseph Justus Scaliger ranks 51 out of 561. Before him are François Guizot, Leonardo Bruni, Niketas Choniates, Aby Warburg, Henri Pirenne, and Ernst Gombrich. After him are Socrates of Constantinople, Jared Diamond, Johann Gustav Droysen, Marcus Velleius Paterculus, Geoffrey of Villehardouin, and Callisthenes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1540, Joseph Justus Scaliger ranks 7. Before him are Francis Drake, François Viète, Ludolph van Ceulen, Charles II, Archduke of Austria, John Sigismund Zápolya, and Maharana Pratap. After him are Hümaşah Sultan, Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli, Magnus, Duke of Holstein, Gasparo da Salò, José de Acosta, and Won Gyun. Among people deceased in 1609, Joseph Justus Scaliger ranks 4. Before him are Annibale Carracci, Judah Loew ben Bezalel, and Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. After him are Jacobus Arminius, Federico Zuccari, Gasparo da Salò, John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Yi San-hae, Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, and John Leonardi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Justus Scaliger ranks 769 out of 6,770. Before him are Fanny Ardant (1949), René Coty (1882), Roscellinus (1050), Mylène Demongeot (1935), Princess Augusta of Bavaria (1788), and Eugène Sue (1804). After him are Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (1902), Eric Cantona (1966), Adélaïde of France (1732), Auguste Mariette (1821), Edmond James de Rothschild (1845), and Frontinus (30).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Joseph Justus Scaliger ranks 9. Before him are Fernand Braudel (1902), Marc Bloch (1886), Hippolyte Taine (1828), Jacques Le Goff (1924), Lucien Febvre (1878), and François Guizot (1787). After him are Geoffrey of Villehardouin (1150), Gaston Maspero (1846), Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929), Georges Duby (1919), Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914), and Paul Veyne (1930).

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