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Natalie Zemon Davis

1928 - 2023

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Natalie Zemon Davis, (November 8, 1928 – October 21, 2023) was an American-Canadian historian of the early modern period. She was the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Princeton University. Her work originally focused on France, but it later broadened to include other parts of Europe, North America, and the Caribbean. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Natalie Zemon Davis has received more than 241,896 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Natalie Zemon Davis is the 114th most popular historian (up from 274th in 2019), the 1,928th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,607th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Historian.

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  • 240k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Natalie Zemon Davis ranks 114 out of 561. Before her are Golo Mann, Paul Veyne, René Grousset, Árni Magnússon, August Ludwig von Schlözer, and Richard Sennett. After her are Henry Thomas Buckle, Richard Pipes, Leo the Deacon, Hayden White, Ibn Hibban, and Arnold Hauser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Natalie Zemon Davis ranks 119. Before her are Paul Elvstrøm, John Stewart Bell, Daisaku Ikeda, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Edward Albee, and Hannah Pick-Goslar. After her are Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Bo Diddley, Peter Naur, Howard S. Becker, Hayden White, and Branko Mikulić. Among people deceased in 2023, Natalie Zemon Davis ranks 125. Before her are Daisaku Ikeda, Tom Courtney, Reino Börjesson, Glenda Jackson, Robbie Robertson, and Adolf Scherer. After her are Roberto Dinamite, Ray Stevenson, Howard S. Becker, Kevin Mitnick, David Crosby, and Abdul Ati al-Obeidi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Natalie Zemon Davis ranks 1,928 out of 20,380. Before her are Eddie Constantine (1913), Jean Arthur (1900), Whitey Bulger (1929), Frances Conroy (1953), Nancy Fraser (1947), and Armand Assante (1949). After her are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807), Bruce McCandless II (1937), Henry A. Wallace (1888), Maria Branyas (1907), Ted Turner (1938), and Moby (1965).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Natalie Zemon Davis ranks 5. Before her are Thomas Kuhn (1922), Jared Diamond (1937), Donna Haraway (1944), and Richard Sennett (1943). After her are Hayden White (1928), Barbara W. Tuchman (1912), Howard Zinn (1922), Frederick Jackson Turner (1861), Linda Nochlin (1931), Joan Wallach Scott (1941), and Deborah Lipstadt (1947).

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