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Edward Gibbon

1737 - 1794

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Edward Gibbon (; 8 May 1737 – 16 January 1794) was a British essayist, historian and politician. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in six volumes between 1776 and 1789, is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its polemical criticism of organized religion. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Gibbon is the 30th most popular historian (up from 33rd in 2019), the 354th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 287th in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Historian.

Edward Gibbon is most famous for his book, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

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Among historians, Edward Gibbon ranks 30 out of 561. Before him are Fernand Braudel, Joannes Zonaras, Arnold J. Toynbee, Bede, Johan Huizinga, and Ibn Kathir. After him are Jacob Burckhardt, Saxo Grammaticus, Eric Hobsbawm, Marc Bloch, Ibn Ishaq, and Friedrich Carl von Savigny.

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Among people born in 1737, Edward Gibbon ranks 2. Before him is Luigi Galvani. After him are Thomas Paine, Johann Friedrich Struensee, Michael Haydn, Josef Mysliveček, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov, and Louise of France. Among people deceased in 1794, Edward Gibbon ranks 7. Before him are Maximilien Robespierre, Antoine Lavoisier, Georges Danton, Marquis de Condorcet, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, and Cesare Beccaria. After him are Camille Desmoulins, Élisabeth of France, Georg Forster, Alexandre de Beauharnais, André Chénier, and Georges Couthon.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Gibbon ranks 354 out of 8,785. Before him are Stan Laurel (1890), Lady Godiva (990), Syd Barrett (1946), Vivienne Westwood (1941), Frank Williams (1942), and John Edward Gray (1800). After him are Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803), George Michael (1963), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792), Jimmy Page (1944), Henrietta of England (1644), and Laurence Olivier (1907).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Edward Gibbon ranks 4. Before him are Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800), Arnold J. Toynbee (1889), and Bede (672). After him are Bernard Lewis (1916), Kenneth Clark (1903), Frances Yates (1899), Arnold Toynbee (1852), W. Montgomery Watt (1909), Peter Burke (1937), Henry Thomas Buckle (1821), and Norman Davies (1939).

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