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Maxime Rodinson

1915 - 2004

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Maxime Rodinson (French pronunciation: [ʁɔdɛ̃sɔ̃]; 26 January 1915 – 23 May 2004) was a French historian and sociologist. Ideologically a Marxist, Rodinson was a prominent authority in oriental studies. He was the son of a Russian-Polish clothing trader and his wife, who both were murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maxime Rodinson has received more than 107,875 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Maxime Rodinson is the 281st most popular historian (down from 226th in 2019), the 3,551st most popular biography from France (down from 3,173rd in 2019) and the 41st most popular French Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Maxime Rodinson ranks 281 out of 339Before him are Edward Granville Browne, Léon Poliakov, Gerhard Friedrich Müller, Gerald of Wales, Donald Keene, and Leo Allatius. After him are John Keegan, Joan Wallach Scott, Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius, İbrahim Peçevi, Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, and Gerda Lerner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Maxime Rodinson ranks 148Before him are Sergio Bertoni, Eugene Polley, Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Tapio Rautavaara, Else Krüger, and William Masters. After him are Antonio Innocenti, Kenneth Arnold, Harry Saltzman, Henner Henkel, Sargent Shriver, and Kurt Aland. Among people deceased in 2004, Maxime Rodinson ranks 152Before him are Juan Carlos Aramburu, Barney Kessel, Carvalho Leite, Orvar Bergmark, Tony Randall, and Paul Sweezy. After him are Ivan Hlinka, John Peel, Alexander Ragulin, Evelyn Mase, Rogelio Domínguez, and Christl Cranz.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maxime Rodinson ranks 3,551 out of 6,011Before him are Ernest Hébert (1817), Valérie Trierweiler (1965), Henri Sauguet (1901), Gaucelm Faidit (1170), Victor Laloux (1850), and Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark (1910). After him are Yvonne Loriod (1924), Coline Serreau (1947), Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (1581), Bernard Heuvelmans (1916), Frédéric Mitterrand (1947), and Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948).

Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Maxime Rodinson ranks 41Before him are Jean Delumeau (1923), Stéphane Courtois (1947), Pierre Vidal-Naquet (1930), Émile Mâle (1862), George Cœdès (1886), and Emmanuel Todd (1951). After him are Joseph-François Michaud (1767), André Clot (1909), Élisabeth Roudinesco (1944), Léon Gautier (1832), Gustave Lanson (1857), and Jérôme Carcopino (1881).