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Ernest Fenollosa

1853 - 1908

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Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (February 18, 1853 – September 21, 1908) was an American art historian of Japanese art, professor of philosophy and political economy at Tokyo Imperial University. An important educator during the modernization of Japan during the Meiji Era, Fenollosa was an enthusiastic Orientalist who did much to preserve traditional Japanese art. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ernest Fenollosa is the 348th most popular historian (down from 344th in 2019), the 5,867th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,442nd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular American Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Ernest Fenollosa ranks 348 out of 561Before him are Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius, Andrea Riccardi, Bobojon Ghafurov, Ernest Lavisse, Philip K. Hitti, and Richard N. Frye. After him are Serhii Plokhy, Arno Peters, Jérôme Carcopino, Nicholas Adontz, Kurt Aland, and Milan Šufflay.

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Among people born in 1853, Ernest Fenollosa ranks 74Before him are Florentino Ameghino, Marc-Émile Ruchet, John Wesley Hardin, Jaroslav Vrchlický, Mato Kósyk, and José Santos Zelaya. After him are Jules Lemaître, Isidor Kaufmann, Heinrich Lammasch, Maria Wiik, Leo Anton Karl de Ball, and Julia Beck. Among people deceased in 1908, Ernest Fenollosa ranks 76Before him are Valtazar Bogišić, Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg, Friedrich Paulsen, Ernest Hébert, René Panhard, and Milovan Glišić. After him are Carl Friedrich Schmidt, William Edward Ayrton, Baron Ignaz von Plener, Manuel Curros Enríquez, Paul Taffanel, and Antonio Aguilar y Correa, Marquis of Vega de Armijo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ernest Fenollosa ranks 5,867 out of 20,380Before him are Titus Welliver (1962), Haskell Curry (1900), Sam J. Jones (1954), Richard N. Frye (1920), Walter Sutton (1877), and Ralph Hartley (1888). After him are Gus Hall (1910), Arleigh Burke (1901), Alvan Graham Clark (1832), Michael Cole (1968), Mark Tornillo (1954), and Paul J. Weitz (1932).

Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Ernest Fenollosa ranks 22Before him are William H. Prescott (1796), Frederick Jackson Turner (1861), Efraim Zuroff (1948), Robert Darnton (1939), Donald Keene (1922), and Richard N. Frye (1920). After him are Joan Wallach Scott (1941), Stanley G. Payne (1934), Stephen Greenblatt (1943), Mary Ritter Beard (1876), Stephen E. Ambrose (1936), and Daniel J. Boorstin (1914).