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Hippolyte Taine

1828 - 1893

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Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (21 April 1828 – 5 March 1893) was a French historian, critic and philosopher. He was the chief theoretical influence on French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism. Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said to originate with him. Taine is also remembered for his attempts to provide a scientific account of literature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hippolyte Taine is the 37th most popular historian (down from 30th in 2019), the 574th most popular biography from France (down from 447th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Historian.

Hippolyte Taine was a French philosopher and critic who is most famous for his work "History of English Literature."

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Among historians, Hippolyte Taine ranks 37 out of 561. Before him are Jacob Burckhardt, Saxo Grammaticus, Eric Hobsbawm, Marc Bloch, Ibn Ishaq, and Friedrich Carl von Savigny. After him are Quintus Curtius Rufus, Leonardo Bruni, Jacques Le Goff, Adam of Bremen, Ali ibn al-Athir, and Marcus Velleius Paterculus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1828, Hippolyte Taine ranks 9. Before him are Henrik Ibsen, Henry Dunant, Rani of Jhansi, Randal Cremer, Saigō Takamori, and Charbel Makhlouf. After him are Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Albert Marth, Ferdinand Cohn, Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia, and Albert of Saxony. Among people deceased in 1893, Hippolyte Taine ranks 9. Before him are Charles Gounod, Josef Stefan, Patrice de MacMahon, Rutherford B. Hayes, Jean-Martin Charcot, and Jan Matejko. After him are Alexander of Battenberg, Baron Alexander von Bach, Ernst Kummer, Duke Maximilian Emanuel in Bavaria, Jules Ferry, and John Tyndall.

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In France

Among people born in France, Hippolyte Taine ranks 574 out of 6,770. Before him are Paul Langevin (1872), Princess Marie Bonaparte (1882), Theuderic I (485), Henry I, Duke of Guise (1550), Richard Clayderman (1953), and Marcel Marceau (1923). After him are Claude Louis Berthollet (1748), Marius Petipa (1818), René Guénon (1886), Ambroise Paré (1510), Isabelle Adjani (1955), and France Gall (1947).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Hippolyte Taine ranks 5. Before him are Tacitus (54), Alexis de Tocqueville (1805), Fernand Braudel (1902), and Marc Bloch (1886). After him are 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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