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Joseph de Guignes

1721 - 1800

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Joseph de Guignes (French pronunciation: [ʒozɛf də ɡiɲ]; 19 October 1721 – 19 March 1800) was a French orientalist, sinologist and Turkologist born at Pontoise, the son of Jean Louis de Guignes and Françoise Vaillant. He died in Paris. He succeeded Étienne Fourmont at the Royal Library as secretary interpreter of the Eastern languages. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph de Guignes has received more than 61,009 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Joseph de Guignes is the 257th most popular historian (down from 228th in 2019), the 3,297th most popular biography from France (down from 3,051st in 2019) and the 35th most popular French Historian.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Joseph de Guignes ranks 257 out of 561. Before him are İlber Ortaylı, Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, Arno Peters, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Ibn Hayyan, and Charles Rollin. After him are Charles Barbier de Meynard, Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, Abraham Geiger, Bobojon Ghafurov, Guglielmo Ferrero, and Christopher Hill.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1721, Joseph de Guignes ranks 16. Before him are Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, Anna Dorothea Therbusch, Abdulaziz bin Muhammad Al Saud, Samuel von Brukenthal, Tobias Smollett, and Frederick Christian I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. After him are Francesco Sabatini, Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Roger Sherman, William Robertson, Benjamin Wilson, and Peyton Randolph. Among people deceased in 1800, Joseph de Guignes ranks 22. Before him are Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, Jean-Étienne Championnet, François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé, Michał Kazimierz Ogiński, Koca Yusuf Pasha, and Friedrich Gilly. After him are Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, William Cowper, Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle, Michael Denis, and Margravine Philippine of Brandenburg-Schwedt.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph de Guignes ranks 3,297 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Étienne Montucla (1725), Pascal Lamy (1947), Antoine Berman (1942), Charles Rollin (1661), Johannes de Muris (1290), and Casimir Delavigne (1793). After him are Antoine de la Sale (1388), Gérard Jugnot (1951), Pierre Sinibaldi (1924), Alfred Bruneau (1857), Jeanne Jugan (1792), and Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ (1842).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Joseph de Guignes ranks 35. Before him are Georges Lefebvre (1874), Maxime Rodinson (1915), Gustave Lanson (1857), Marc Ferro (1924), Gustave Schlumberger (1844), and Charles Rollin (1661). After him are Émile Mâle (1862), Bernard Desclot (1201), Régine Pernoud (1909), Claude Cahen (1909), Dudo of Saint-Quentin (960), and Élisabeth Roudinesco (1944).

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