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Edgar Quinet

1803 - 1875

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Edgar Quinet (French: [kinɛ]; 17 February 1803 – 27 March 1875) was a French historian and intellectual. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edgar Quinet is the 209th most popular historian (down from 168th in 2019), the 2,871st most popular biography from France (down from 2,503rd in 2019) and the 29th most popular French Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Edgar Quinet ranks 209 out of 561. Before him are Philipp Spitta, Karl Krumbacher, Pei Songzhi, Egon Friedell, Peter Andreas Munch, and Simon Dubnow. After him are Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad, Moritz Cantor, Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, Guo Pu, Robert Conquest, and Anthony Blunt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Edgar Quinet ranks 39. Before him are Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Alexander von Nordmann, Henri Herz, Joseph Paxton, and Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias. After him are Franz Lachner, Gustaaf Wappers, Elisa Radziwiłł, Eugène Isabey, Duchess Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Albert Sidney Johnston. Among people deceased in 1875, Edgar Quinet ranks 41. Before him are Antoine-Louis Barye, Frederick William, Elector of Hesse, Carl Jakob Sundevall, January Suchodolski, Henri Labrouste, and Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain. After him are Marc Seguin, Eugène Schneider, Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, Richard Christopher Carrington, Prosper Guéranger, and Georg Herwegh.

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In France

Among people born in France, Edgar Quinet ranks 2,871 out of 6,770. Before him are Jacques-François Menou (1750), Louis François Joseph, Prince of Conti (1734), Augusta Holmès (1847), Jean-Pierre Marielle (1932), Sylvain Maréchal (1750), and Corbinian (670). After him are Yves Meyer (1939), Duke Philipp of Württemberg (1838), Joseph Guillemot (1899), Louis Feuillade (1873), Madeleine Béjart (1615), and Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Edgar Quinet ranks 29. Before him are Augustin Thierry (1795), Charles Diehl (1859), George Cœdès (1886), Henri Maspero (1883), Paul Veyne (1930), and Roger Chartier (1945). After him are Joseph de Guignes (1721), Bernard Desclot (1201), Charles Rollin (1661), Régine Pernoud (1909), André Clot (1909), and Maxime Rodinson (1915).

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