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Jean Astruc

1684 - 1766

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Jean Astruc (19 March 1684, in Sauve, France – 5 May 1766, in Paris) was a professor of medicine in France at Montpellier and Paris, who wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and venereal diseases, and also, with a small anonymously published book, played a fundamental part in the origins of critical textual analysis of works of the Bible. Astruc was the first to propose and hypothesize, by using the techniques of textual analysis that were commonplace in studying the secular classics, the theory that Genesis was composed based on several sources or manuscript traditions, an approach now called the documentary hypothesis. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Astruc is the 2,511th most popular writer (up from 3,060th in 2019), the 2,769th most popular biography from France (up from 3,209th in 2019) and the 351st most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Jean Astruc ranks 2,511 out of 7,302. Before him are Cigerxwîn, Banana Yoshimoto, Peter of Dusburg, Joyce Meyer, Al-Farazdaq, and Pascal Quignard. After him are Jack Williamson, George Whitefield, Isak Samokovlija, Rebecca West, Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus, and Mohammed Dib.

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Among people born in 1684, Jean Astruc ranks 9. Before him are Ludvig Holberg, Maria Barbara Bach, Tokugawa Yoshimune, Francesco Durante, Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg, and Johann Gottfried Walther. After him are Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Jean-Baptiste van Loo, Kimpa Vita, Robert Maynard, Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg, and Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle. Among people deceased in 1766, Jean Astruc ranks 12. Before him are Johann Maria Farina, Jean-Marc Nattier, Giuseppe Castiglione, Thomas Abbt, Johann Christoph Gottsched, and Marie Victoire de Noailles. After him are Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Adrien Maurice de Noailles, Dominikus Zimmermann, Jacques Aved, François-Jean de la Barre, and Jane Colden.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Astruc ranks 2,769 out of 6,770. Before him are Léa Seydoux (1985), Henri Tresca (1814), Henri Masson (1872), Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (1853), Adelaide of Paris (850), and Pascal Quignard (1948). After him are Alan IV, Duke of Brittany (1060), Childebrand I (695), Vladimir Jankélévitch (1903), Paul Émile Chabas (1869), Jean d'Ormesson (1925), and Wilhelm Falley (1897).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean Astruc ranks 351. Before him are Philippe Quinault (1635), Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1674), Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis (1746), René Crevel (1900), Mirra Alfassa (1878), and Pascal Quignard (1948). After him are Jean d'Ormesson (1925), Jean-Baptiste Dubos (1670), Michel Zevaco (1860), Gustave Aimard (1818), Théophile de Viau (1590), and Maurice Joly (1829).

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