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Fernand Braudel

1902 - 1985

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Fernand Paul Achille Braudel (French: [fɛʁnɑ̃ bʁodɛl]; 24 August 1902 – 27 November 1985) was a French historian. His scholarship focused on three main projects: The Mediterranean (1923–49, then 1949–66), Civilization and Capitalism (1955–79), and the unfinished Identity of France (1970–85). He was a member of the Annales School of French historiography and social history in the 1950s and 1960s. Braudel emphasized the role of large-scale socioeconomic factors in the making and writing of history. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fernand Braudel is the 24th most popular historian, the 384th most popular biography from France (down from 345th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Historian.

Fernand Braudel was a French historian who is most famous for his work on the three-part division of history into the long-term, medium-term, and short-term.

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Among historians, Fernand Braudel ranks 24 out of 561. Before him are Cassius Dio, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Manetho, William of Tyre, Leopold von Ranke, and Arrian. After him are Joannes Zonaras, Arnold J. Toynbee, Bede, Johan Huizinga, Ibn Kathir, and Edward Gibbon.

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Among people born in 1902, Fernand Braudel ranks 15. Before him are Halldór Laxness, Paul Dirac, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Eugene Wigner, Kurt Alder, and Saud of Saudi Arabia. After him are Alfred Kastler, Barbara McClintock, Walter Houser Brattain, Arne Tiselius, Talcott Parsons, and André Michel Lwoff. Among people deceased in 1985, Fernand Braudel ranks 11. Before him are Heinrich Böll, Charles Francis Richter, Macfarlane Burnet, Orson Welles, Rodney Robert Porter, and Italo Calvino. After him are Carl Schmitt, Jean Dubuffet, László Bíró, Simone Signoret, Philip Larkin, and Rock Hudson.

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In France

Among people born in France, Fernand Braudel ranks 384 out of 6,770. Before him are Colette (1873), André Malraux (1901), Matilda of Boulogne (1103), Robert Guiscard (1016), Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738), and Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908). After him are Marie Louise d’Orléans (1662), Dagobert I (611), François Arago (1786), Jean Arp (1886), Marquis de Condorcet (1743), and Ève Curie (1904).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Fernand Braudel ranks 3. Before him are Tacitus (54), and Alexis de Tocqueville (1805). After him are Marc Bloch (1886), Hippolyte Taine (1828), Jacques Le Goff (1924), Lucien Febvre (1878), François Guizot (1787), Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540), Geoffrey of Villehardouin (1150), Gaston Maspero (1846), and Georges Duby (1919).

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