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Joseph Justus Scaliger

1540 - 1609

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Joseph Justus Scaliger (; 5 August 1540 – 21 January 1609) was a Franco-Italian Calvinist religious leader and scholar, known for expanding the notion of classical history from Greek and Ancient Roman history to include Persian, Babylonian, Jewish and Ancient Egyptian history. He spent the last sixteen years of his life in the Netherlands. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Justus Scaliger is the 54th most popular historian (down from 51st in 2019), the 777th most popular biography from France (down from 769th in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Historian.

Joseph Justus Scaliger was a French scholar and mathematician who is most famous for his work in the fields of chronology and historical linguistics.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Joseph Justus Scaliger ranks 54 out of 561. Before him are François Guizot, Yuval Noah Harari, Samuel von Pufendorf, Niketas Choniates, Poggio Bracciolini, and Aby Warburg. After him are Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani, Justin, Francesco Guicciardini, Euhemerus, Ernst Gombrich, and Johann Gustav Droysen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1540, Joseph Justus Scaliger ranks 6. Before him are Francis Drake, François Viète, Ludolph van Ceulen, Charles II, Archduke of Austria, and John Sigismund Zápolya. After him are Lady Katherine Grey, Maharana Pratap, Hümaşah Sultan, José de Acosta, Magnus, Duke of Holstein, and Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme. Among people deceased in 1609, Joseph Justus Scaliger ranks 4. Before him are Annibale Carracci, Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Judah Loew ben Bezalel. After him are Jacobus Arminius, Federico Zuccari, Gasparo da Salò, John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, John Leonardi, Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, and Yi San-hae.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Justus Scaliger ranks 777 out of 6,770. Before him are Peter Waldo (1140), Dom Pérignon (1639), Armand Fallières (1841), Guntram (532), Simon Vouet (1590), and Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838). After him are Joanna of Bourbon (1338), Jacques Maritain (1882), René Clair (1898), Georges Dumézil (1898), Bertrand du Guesclin (1320), and Fanny Ardant (1949).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Joseph Justus Scaliger ranks 9. Before him are Fernand Braudel (1902), Marc Bloch (1886), Hippolyte Taine (1828), Jacques Le Goff (1924), Lucien Febvre (1878), and François Guizot (1787). After him are Geoffrey of Villehardouin (1150), Gaston Maspero (1846), Georges Duby (1919), Emmanuel Todd (1951), Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929), and René Grousset (1885).

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