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Marc Bloch

1886 - 1944

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Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch (; French: [maʁk leɔpɔld bɛ̃ʒamɛ̃ blɔk]; 6 July 1886 – 16 June 1944) was a French historian. He was a founding member of the Annales School of French social history. Bloch specialised in medieval history and published widely on Medieval France over the course of his career. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marc Bloch has received more than 606,485 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Marc Bloch is the 28th most popular historian (down from 27th in 2019), the 423rd most popular biography from France (down from 378th in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Historian.

Marc Bloch is most famous for his book "The Historian's Craft" which is a book about the history of French and European society.

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  • 68.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Marc Bloch ranks 28 out of 561. Before him are Procopius, Ibn Kathir, Fernand Braudel, Arrian, Johan Huizinga, and Saxo Grammaticus. After him are Friedrich Carl von Savigny, Hippolyte Taine, Bede, Jacob Burckhardt, Edward Gibbon, and Ibn Ishaq.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Marc Bloch ranks 10. Before him are Diego Rivera, Oskar Kokoschka, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Manne Siegbahn, Béla Kun, and Sergey Kirov. After him are René Guénon, Jean Arp, Ernst Thälmann, Karl Barth, Wilhelm Furtwängler, and Karl von Frisch. Among people deceased in 1944, Marc Bloch ranks 18. Before him are Günther von Kluge, Richard Sorge, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Charles Glover Barkla, Michael Wittmann, and Alexis Carrel. After him are Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, Ludwig Beck, Ernst Thälmann, Chūichi Nagumo, Florence Foster Jenkins, and Hilma af Klint.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marc Bloch ranks 423 out of 6,770. Before him are Alexis Carrel (1873), Pytheas (-380), Nicolas Malebranche (1638), Napoléon, Prince Imperial (1856), Fernand Léger (1881), and Émilie du Châtelet (1706). After him are Pauline Bonaparte (1780), Pierre Gassendi (1592), Giambologna (1529), Eugène François Vidocq (1775), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), and Alfred Binet (1857).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Marc Bloch ranks 4. Before him are Tacitus (54), Alexis de Tocqueville (1805), and Fernand Braudel (1902). After him are Hippolyte Taine (1828), Jacques Le Goff (1924), Lucien Febvre (1878), François Guizot (1787), Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540), Geoffrey of Villehardouin (1150), Gaston Maspero (1846), and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929).

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