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Jean-Baptiste Du Halde

1674 - 1743

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Jean-Baptiste Du Halde (Chinese: 杜赫德, Pinyin: Dù Hèdé; 1 February 1674 – 18 August 1743) was a French Jesuit historian specializing in China. He did not travel to China, but collected seventeen Jesuit missionaries' reports and provided an encyclopedic survey of the history, culture and society of China and "Chinese Tartary," that is, Manchuria. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Baptiste Du Halde is the 312th most popular historian (up from 318th in 2019), the 3,646th most popular biography from France (up from 3,788th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular French Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Jean-Baptiste Du Halde ranks 312 out of 561. Before him are Filippo Baldinucci, Charles Barbier de Meynard, Émile Mâle, Yehuda Bauer, Walter Laqueur, and Vakhushti of Kartli. After him are Marsyas of Pella, Jacob Theodor Klein, ʽAbd al-Qadir Badayuni, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Christopher Hill, and Malchus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1674, Jean-Baptiste Du Halde ranks 10. Before him are Ibrahim Muteferrika, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Jeremiah Clarke, Jethro Tull, Marie of Lorraine, and Margravine Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg. After him are Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Isaac Watts, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, and Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend. Among people deceased in 1743, Jean-Baptiste Du Halde ranks 15. Before him are Princess Dorothea Wilhelmine of Saxe-Zeitz, Augustine Washington, Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal, Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans, Karl Friedrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Jai Singh II. After him are Ogata Kenzan, Mikhail Zemtsov, and John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Du Halde ranks 3,646 out of 6,770. Before him are Geoffrey II, Count of Gâtinais (1000), Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux (1767), Pierre Fatou (1878), Nicolas Mignard (1606), Antoine Risso (1777), and Ferdinand Brunetière (1849). After him are Charles Dancla (1817), Christian Marin (1929), Marc Riboud (1923), Henri Laurent (1881), Pierre Étaix (1928), and Jacques Herbrand (1908).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Jean-Baptiste Du Halde ranks 43. Before him are Georges Lefebvre (1874), Gustave Schlumberger (1844), Stéphane Courtois (1947), Marc Ferro (1924), Gustave Lanson (1857), and Émile Mâle (1862). After him are Pierre Vidal-Naquet (1930), Élisabeth Roudinesco (1944), Jean Delumeau (1923), Joseph-François Michaud (1767), Ernest Lavisse (1842), and Jérôme Carcopino (1881).

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