SOCIAL ACTIVIST

René Cassin

1887 - 1976

René Cassin

René Samuel Cassin (5 October 1887 – 20 February 1976) was a French jurist known for co-authoring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. Born in Bayonne, Basque Country, the son of a French-Jewish merchant, he served as a soldier in World War I. He formed the Union Fédérale, a leftist, pacifist organisation for veterans. During the Second World War he served in the Free French government-in-exile in London and between 1944 and 1959 was a member of the Council of State. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Cassin has received more than 140,045 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia making him the 78th most popular social activist.

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  • 62.25

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  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, René Cassin ranks 77 out of 426. Before him are Buenaventura Durruti, Edmond James de Rothschild, Antipope Clement III, Aleksandr Ulyanov, Dominique Pire, and Zhang Jue. After him are Mustafa Barzani, Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Emilia Plater, Alexander Parvus, Kasturba Gandhi, and Augusto César Sandino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, René Cassin ranks 38. Before him are Lothar Rendulic, James B. Sumner, Wolfgang Köhler, Erich Mendelsohn, Nikolai Vavilov, and Nadia Boulanger. After him are Georgia O'Keeffe, Julian Huxley, Harald Bohr, Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal, Alexander Archipenko, and Georg-Hans Reinhardt. Among people deceased in 1976, René Cassin ranks 35. Before him are Dalton Trumbo, Lars Onsager, Émile Benveniste, Juscelino Kubitschek, Josef Albers, and Choe Yong-gon. After him are Benjamin Graham, Gustav Heinemann, Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, George Whipple, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, and Andrei Grechko.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Cassin ranks 848 out of 4,109. Before him are Carolus Clusius (1525), Nadia Boulanger (1887), Félix Guattari (1930), Émile Borel (1871), Robert of Molesme (1024), and Christina of Lorraine (1565). After him are Chevalier d'Éon (1728), Lorin Maazel (1930), Jacques Pierre Brissot (1754), Edmond de Goncourt (1822), Armand Fallières (1841), and Marcellin Berthelot (1827).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In France

Among social activists born in France, René Cassin ranks 5. Before him are Charlotte Corday (1768), Olympe de Gouges (1748), Gabrielle d'Estrées (1573), and Edmond James de Rothschild (1845). After him are Louise Michel (1830), Léon Jouhaux (1879), Flora Tristan (1803), René Just Haüy (1743), Abbé Pierre (1912), Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208), and Jacques Roux (1752).

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