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Robert Darnton

1939 - Today

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Robert Choate Darnton (born May 10, 1939) is an American cultural historian and academic librarian who specializes in 18th-century France. He was director of the Harvard University Library from 2007 to 2016. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Darnton has received more than 203,662 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Robert Darnton is the 350th most popular historian (down from 231st in 2019), the 5,642nd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,885th in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Historian.

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  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Robert Darnton ranks 350 out of 561. Before him are Ernest Fenollosa, Girolamo Mei, Jérôme Carcopino, Fernão Lopes, William H. Prescott, and John Keegan. After him are Ernest Labrousse, Jacob Talmon, Stanley G. Payne, Ernest Lavisse, Helene Ahrweiler, and Henri Grégoire.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Robert Darnton ranks 333. Before him are Joe Clark, Billy Cox, Joseph Raz, Abdullah Ensour, Sushil Koirala, and Michael Gothard. After him are Basil van Rooyen, Jimmie Nicol, Vladimír Weiss, Maeve Binchy, Edwin Frederick O'Brien, and Raymond J. Barry.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Darnton ranks 5,642 out of 20,380. Before him are Julian Beck (1925), Eugene McCarthy (1916), Jesse L. Lasky (1880), Rey Mysterio (1974), Chief Joseph (1840), and Jennifer Welles (1937). After him are Jessie Royce Landis (1896), Marilyn Burns (1949), Mitchell Leisen (1898), Bob Gale (1951), William Lloyd Garrison (1805), and Country Joe McDonald (1942).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Robert Darnton ranks 19. Before him are Donald Keene (1922), Stephen E. Ambrose (1936), Timothy D. Snyder (1969), John King Fairbank (1907), Ernest Fenollosa (1853), and William H. Prescott (1796). After him are Stanley G. Payne (1934), Efraim Zuroff (1948), Richard N. Frye (1920), Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917), Daniel Pipes (1949), and Carl Benjamin Boyer (1906).

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