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Jacques Le Goff

1924 - 2014

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Jacques Le Goff (French: [ʒak lə ɡɔf]; 1 January 1924 – 1 April 2014) was a French historian and prolific author specializing in the Middle Ages, particularly the 12th and 13th centuries. Le Goff championed the Annales School movement, which emphasizes long-term trends over the topics of politics, diplomacy, and war that dominated 19th-century historical research. From 1972 to 1977, he was the head of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris. He was a leading figure of New History, related to cultural history. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Le Goff is the 40th most popular historian (down from 37th in 2019), the 588th most popular biography from France (down from 518th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Historian.

Jacques Le Goff is a French historian and sociologist who is most famous for his work on the Middle Ages. He is also known for his work on the history of the family, the history of education, and the history of women.

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Among historians, Jacques Le Goff ranks 40 out of 561. Before him are Marc Bloch, Ibn Ishaq, Friedrich Carl von Savigny, Hippolyte Taine, Quintus Curtius Rufus, and Leonardo Bruni. After him are Adam of Bremen, Ali ibn al-Athir, Marcus Velleius Paterculus, Erwin Panofsky, Al-Baladhuri, and Socrates of Constantinople.

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Among people born in 1924, Jacques Le Goff ranks 23. Before him are Benoit Mandelbrot, Maurice Jarre, Sarah Vaughan, Georges Charpak, Lauren Bacall, and Roger Guillemin. After him are Sergei Parajanov, Paul Feyerabend, Lys Assia, S. R. Nathan, Billy Wright, and Jovanka Broz. Among people deceased in 2014, Jacques Le Goff ranks 20. Before him are Luis Aragonés, Maximilian Schell, Shirley Temple, Alexander Grothendieck, Lauren Bacall, and Paco de Lucía. After him are Robert A. Dahl, Martin Lewis Perl, Virna Lisi, Queen Fabiola of Belgium, Alain Resnais, and Christopher Hogwood.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Le Goff ranks 588 out of 6,770. Before him are Carlos Gardel (1890), Maurice de Vlaminck (1876), Gaston Bachelard (1884), Yves Klein (1928), Roger Guillemin (1924), and Mireille Darc (1938). After him are Daniel Auber (1782), Louis, Grand Condé (1621), Marie-Antoine Carême (1784), Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse (1045), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), and Edmond Becquerel (1820).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Jacques Le Goff ranks 6. Before him are Tacitus (54), Alexis de Tocqueville (1805), Fernand Braudel (1902), Marc Bloch (1886), and Hippolyte Taine (1828). After him are 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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