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Anne Dacier

1645 - 1720

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Anne Le Fèvre Dacier (French pronunciation: [an lə fɛvʁ dasje]; c. 1651 – 17 August 1720), better known during her lifetime as Madame Dacier ([madam dasje]), was a French scholar, translator, commentator and editor of the classics, including the Iliad and the Odyssey. She sought to champion ancient literature and used her great capabilities in Latin and Greek for this purpose as well as for her own financial support, producing a series of editions and translations from which she earned her living. She was the dedicatee of Gilles Ménage's Historia mulierum philosopharum, whose characterisation of her and of Anna Maria van Schurman was used to provide leading examples in treatises arguing for female education across the following centuries. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anne Dacier is the 84th most popular linguist (up from 88th in 2019), the 2,851st most popular biography from France (up from 3,100th in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Anne Dacier ranks 84 out of 214. Before her are Vasili Eroshenko, Robert Morrison, Morris Swadesh, Max Nettlau, Eugenio Coșeriu, and Holger Pedersen. After her are Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke, Gustaf John Ramstedt, Johannes Schmidt, Jan Mukařovský, Morris Halle, and Konrad Duden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1645, Anne Dacier ranks 9. Before her are William Kidd, Jean de La Bruyère, William Penn, Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, Aert de Gelder, and Francis I Rákóczi. After her are Andreas Werckmeister, Nicolas Lemery, Maria de Dominici, Eusebio Kino, Louis Jolliet, and François de Troy. Among people deceased in 1720, Anne Dacier ranks 9. Before her are Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg, Maria Barbara Bach, Maria Margaretha Kirch, Antoine Coysevox, Edward England, and Peter Tordenskjold. After her are Abdul-Qādir Bedil, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway, Nicolas de Fer, and Balaji Vishwanath.

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In France

Among people born in France, Anne Dacier ranks 2,851 out of 6,770. Before her are Pierre Alphonse Laurent (1813), Jean-Baptiste Debret (1768), Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire (1802), François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort (1616), Julie d'Aubigny (1670), and Ousmane Dembélé (1997). After her are Alix, Duchess of Brittany (1200), Jules Simon (1814), Christian Louboutin (1964), Paul Gervais (1816), Georges Catroux (1877), and Abraham Duquesne (1610).

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Among LINGUISTS In France

Among linguists born in France, Anne Dacier ranks 7. Before her are Georges Dumézil (1898), Antoine Meillet (1866), Alexandre de Rhodes (1591), André Martinet (1908), Louis de Beaufront (1855), and Émile Littré (1801). After her are Lucien Tesnière (1893), Louis Duchesne (1843), Sylvain Lévi (1863), Gaston Waringhien (1901), and Arsène Darmesteter (1846).

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