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Joseph de Guignes

1721 - 1800

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Joseph de Guignes (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 at 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 56,661 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph de Guignes is the 228th most popular historian, the 3,062nd most popular biography from France and the 30th most popular French Historian.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Joseph de Guignes ranks 228 out of 339. Before him are Janko Prunk, William H. McNeill, Ivane Javakhishvili, Aulus Cremutius Cordus, Ibn Abd al-Hakam, and Juan de Mariana. After him are Paul Veyne, Friedrich Meinecke, Robert Darnton, Marc Ferro, Saul Friedländer, and John King Fairbank.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1721, Joseph de Guignes ranks 15. Before him are Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach, Tobias Smollett, Samuel von Brukenthal, Johann Kirnberger, Abdulaziz bin Muhammad Al Saud, and Frederick Christian I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. After him are Anna Dorothea Therbusch, Francesco Sabatini, Roger Sherman, William Robertson, Benjamin Wilson, and Peyton Randolph. Among people deceased in 1800, Joseph de Guignes ranks 19. Before him are Lorenzo Mascheroni, Salomon Maimon, Johann Hermann, François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé, Jean-Étienne Championnet, and Michał Kazimierz Ogiński. After him are Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle, Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, William Cowper, Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, and Friedrich Gilly.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph de Guignes ranks 3,062 out of 6,011. Before him are Jamel Debbouze (1975), Charles Estienne (1504), Juliette Mayniel (1936), Claude Pompidou (1912), Auguste Herbin (1882), and Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1877). After him are Paul Veyne (1930), Antoine-Denis Chaudet (1763), Bernard de Montfaucon (1655), Jean-François Regnard (1655), Jacques Duclos (1896), and Jean-Hugues Anglade (1955).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Joseph de Guignes ranks 30. Before him are Roger Chartier (1945), Bernard Desclot (1201), Edgar Quinet (1803), Henri Maspero (1883), Claude Cahen (1909), and Georges Lefebvre (1874). After him are Paul Veyne (1930), Marc Ferro (1924), Charles Rollin (1661), Gustave Schlumberger (1844), Jean Delumeau (1923), and Stéphane Courtois (1947).

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