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Albert Soboul

1914 - 1982

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Albert Marius Soboul (27 April 1914 – 11 September 1982) was a historian of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods. A professor at the Sorbonne, he was chair of the History of the French Revolution and author of numerous influential works of history and historical interpretation. In his lifetime, he was internationally recognized as the foremost French authority on the Revolutionary era. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Albert Soboul is the 231st most popular historian (down from 222nd in 2019), the 82nd most popular biography from Algeria (up from 86th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Algerian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Albert Soboul ranks 231 out of 561. Before him are Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Joseph de Guignes, Constantine Lascaris, Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi, İbrahim Peçevi, and Vasily Klyuchevsky. After him are Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Julien Ries, Reinhart Dozy, Philochorus, Abu Mikhnaf, and Tony Judt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Albert Soboul ranks 167. Before him are Magda Frank, Adolf Diekmann, Maxim of Bulgaria, Giorgio Almirante, Tito Okello, and Mihailo Lalić. After him are Alojs Andritzki, Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, Taisen Deshimaru, Jerry Siegel, Kenny Clarke, and Beatrice Straight. Among people deceased in 1982, Albert Soboul ranks 114. Before him are Patrick Magee, Eduard Tubin, Bauyrzhan Momyshuly, Hironori Ōtsuka, Abba P. Lerner, and Anandamayi Ma. After him are Taisen Deshimaru, Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, Giorgio Abetti, Georg Konrad Morgen, Lauri Virtanen, and Warren Oates.

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In Algeria

Among people born in Algeria, Albert Soboul ranks 82 out of 213. Before him are Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi (1787), Francisco Serrano, 1st Duke of la Torre (1810), Abdelmalek Sellal (1948), Émile Boirac (1851), Françoise Arnoul (1931), and Messali Hadj (1898). After him are Abdelhamid Ben Badis (1889), Mouloud Feraoun (1913), Françoise Fabian (1933), Quintus Lollius Urbicus (150), Yasmina Khadra (1955), and Abderrahmane Farès (1911).

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Among HISTORIANS In Algeria

Among historians born in Algeria, Albert Soboul ranks 2. Before him are Évariste Lévi-Provençal (1894).

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