54 - 120
Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus ( TAS-it-əs, Latin: [ˈtakɪtʊs]; c. AD 56 – c. 120), was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars.The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals (Latin: Annales) and the Histories (Latin: Historiae)—examine the reigns of the emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero, and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors (69 AD). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tacitus has received more than 2,815,556 page views. His biography is available in 84 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 81 in 2019). Tacitus is the 5th most popular historian, the 76th most popular biography from France (down from 67th in 2019) and the most popular French Historian.
Tacitus is most famous for writing the Annals of Imperial Rome, a set of books that chronicle the history of Rome from the death of Augustus in 14 AD to the death of Nero in 68 AD.
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Among historians, Tacitus ranks 5 out of 339. Before him are Herodotus, Ibn Khaldun, Thucydides, and Xenophon. After him are Livy, Sima Qian, Josephus, Polybius, Suetonius, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Diodorus Siculus.
484 BC - 425 BC
HPI: 89.51
Rank: 1
1332 - 1406
HPI: 80.75
Rank: 2
460 BC - 397 BC
HPI: 80.13
Rank: 3
430 BC - 354 BC
HPI: 78.85
Rank: 4
54 - 120
HPI: 78.34
Rank: 5
59 BC - 17
HPI: 78.27
Rank: 6
145 BC - 86 BC
HPI: 77.97
Rank: 7
37 - 100
HPI: 77.56
Rank: 8
208 BC - 126 BC
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 9
70 - 126
HPI: 74.53
Rank: 10
1805 - 1859
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 11
90 BC - 30 BC
HPI: 73.70
Rank: 12
Among people born in 54, Tacitus ranks 1. Among people deceased in 120, Tacitus ranks 1. After him are Dio Chrysostom, Nicomachus, and Gaius Octavius Tidius Tossianus Lucius Javolenus Priscus.
54 - 120
HPI: 78.34
Rank: 1
40 - 120
HPI: 62.18
Rank: 2
60 - 120
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 3
60 - 120
HPI: 53.56
Rank: 4
Among people born in France, Tacitus ranks 76 out of 6,011. Before him are Romain Rolland (1866), Louis IX of France (1214), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), Henri Bergson (1859), Louis de Funès (1914), and Henry III of France (1551). After him are Pope Urban II (1042), Marquis de Sade (1740), Gustave Courbet (1819), Irène Joliot-Curie (1897), Louis the Pious (778), and Caracalla (188).
1866 - 1944
HPI: 78.73
Rank: 70
1214 - 1270
HPI: 78.71
Rank: 71
1780 - 1867
HPI: 78.64
Rank: 72
1859 - 1941
HPI: 78.59
Rank: 73
1914 - 1983
HPI: 78.46
Rank: 74
1551 - 1589
HPI: 78.35
Rank: 75
54 - 120
HPI: 78.34
Rank: 76
1042 - 1099
HPI: 78.26
Rank: 77
1740 - 1814
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 78
1819 - 1877
HPI: 78.13
Rank: 79
1897 - 1956
HPI: 78.05
Rank: 80
778 - 840
HPI: 78.05
Rank: 81
188 - 217
HPI: 78.05
Rank: 82
Among historians born in France, Tacitus ranks 1. After him are Alexis de Tocqueville (1805), Fernand Braudel (1902), Marc Bloch (1886), 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 Georges Duby (1919).
54 - 120
HPI: 78.34
Rank: 1
1805 - 1859
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 2
1902 - 1985
HPI: 70.47
Rank: 3
1886 - 1944
HPI: 69.14
Rank: 4
1828 - 1893
HPI: 68.10
Rank: 5
1924 - 2014
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 6
1878 - 1956
HPI: 66.31
Rank: 7
1787 - 1874
HPI: 65.11
Rank: 8
1540 - 1609
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 9
1150 - 1210
HPI: 62.65
Rank: 10
1846 - 1916
HPI: 62.59
Rank: 11
1919 - 1996
HPI: 60.13
Rank: 12