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Antoine-Henri Jomini

1779 - 1869

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Antoine-Henri Jomini (French: [ʒɔmini]; 6 March 1779 – 22 March 1869) was a Swiss-French military officer who served as a general in French and later in Russian service, and one of the most celebrated writers on the Napoleonic art of war. Jomini was largely self-taught in military strategy, and his ideas are a staple at military academies, the United States Military Academy at West Point being a prominent example; his theories were thought to have affected many officers who later served in the American Civil War. He may have coined the term logistics in his Summary of the Art of War (1838). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antoine-Henri Jomini is the 1,391st most popular writer (down from 1,323rd in 2019), the 148th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 131st in 2019) and the 18th most popular Swiss Writer.

Antoine-Henri Jomini was a Swiss military theorist who is most famous for his writings on military strategy. He was born in 1779 and died in 1869.

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Among writers, Antoine-Henri Jomini ranks 1,391 out of 7,302. Before him are Robert Browning, Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Péter Nádas, Erskine Caldwell, Clive Cussler, and Béla Balázs. After him are Adamantios Korais, Wace, Semonides of Amorgos, Wilhelm Weitling, P. D. James, and E. L. James.

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Among people born in 1779, Antoine-Henri Jomini ranks 10. Before him are Friedrich Carl von Savigny, Elizabeth Alexeievna, Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia, Francis IV, Duke of Modena, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, and Adam Oehlenschläger. After him are Giovanni Battista Bugatti, Thomas Moore, Madeleine Sophie Barat, Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily, Abd al-Rahman of Morocco, and Lorenz Oken. Among people deceased in 1869, Antoine-Henri Jomini ranks 12. Before him are Edwin Stanton, Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Hijikata Toshizō, and Thomas Graham. After him are Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Giovanni Battista Bugatti, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, and Alexandrine Tinné.

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Among people born in Switzerland, Antoine-Henri Jomini ranks 148 out of 1,015. Before him are Frank Martin (1890), Heinrich Bullinger (1504), Judith of Habsburg (1271), Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695), Hans Martin Sutermeister (1907), and Alfonsina Storni (1892). After him are Ernest Ansermet (1883), Humbert I, Count of Savoy (980), Kurt Koch (1950), Jean-Robert Argand (1768), Germain Henri Hess (1802), and Jakob Ammann (1644).

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Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Antoine-Henri Jomini ranks 18. Before him are Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908), Blaise Cendrars (1887), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), Rodolphe Töpffer (1799), Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905), and Alfonsina Storni (1892). After him are Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698), Notker the Stammerer (840), Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825), Jean Starobinski (1920), Jeremias Gotthelf (1797), and Emma Jung (1882).

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