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Édouard-Alfred Martel

1859 - 1938

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Édouard-Alfred Martel (1 July 1859, Pontoise, Val-d'Oise – 3 June 1938, Montbrison), the 'father of modern speleology', was a world pioneer of cave exploration, study, and documentation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Édouard-Alfred Martel has received more than 51,266 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Édouard-Alfred Martel is the 349th most popular explorer (down from 334th in 2019), the 3,990th most popular biography from France (down from 3,771st in 2019) and the 31st most popular French Explorer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Édouard-Alfred Martel ranks 349 out of 498. Before him are Albert von Le Coq, Piet Retief, Olav Bjaaland, John Byron, Gonçalo Velho Cabral, and Oscar Dickson. After him are Domingo Martínez de Irala, Pascual de Andagoya, Juan Fernández, Florence Baker, Irina Solovyova, and Miguel Corte-Real.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Édouard-Alfred Martel ranks 96. Before him are Josephine Crowell, Maurice Paléologue, Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquess of Alhucemas, Paul César Helleu, Teodor Axentowicz, and Julius Klengel. After him are Anna Palm de Rosa, Park Eun-sik, Vittorio Sella, Johan Jensen, Ernst, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, and Rizaeddin bin Fakhreddin. Among people deceased in 1938, Édouard-Alfred Martel ranks 157. Before him are Ayna Sultanova, Anatoly Pepelyayev, Wage Rudolf Supratman, Akmal Ikramov, Osman Aqçoqraqlı, and Georg Schrimpf. After him are Osip Piatnitsky, Yevgeny Polivanov, Nikolai Gikalo, Theodor Fischer, Pearl White, and Karl Madsen.

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In France

Among people born in France, Édouard-Alfred Martel ranks 3,990 out of 6,770. Before him are Antoine Duhamel (1925), Pierre Veyron (1903), Émile Veinante (1907), Philippe de Villiers (1949), Simone Segouin (1925), and Marisol Escobar (1930). After him are Charles Dancla (1817), Wladimir Aïtoff (1879), Nicolas de Fer (1646), Paul Déroulède (1846), Jacqueline de Romilly (1913), and Jean-Louis de Rambures (1930).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Édouard-Alfred Martel ranks 31. Before him are Nicolas Baudin (1754), Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (1737), Pierre Poivre (1719), Francis Garnier (1839), Freya Stark (1893), and Louis de Freycinet (1779). After him are Jean Louis Marie Poiret (1755), Henri Duveyrier (1840), Étienne Brûlé (1592), Jacques Labillardière (1755), Louis-Gustave Binger (1856), and Jacques Bernard Hombron (1798).

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