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Joseph de Guignes

1721 - 1800

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Joseph de Guignes (French pronunciation: [ʒozɛf də ɡiɲ]; 19 October 1721 – 19 March 1800) was a French orientalist, sinologist and Turkologist born at Pontoise, the son of Jean Louis de Guignes and Françoise Vaillant. He died in Paris. He succeeded Étienne Fourmont at the Royal Library as secretary interpreter of the Eastern languages. His Mémoire historique sur l'origine des Huns et des Turcs, published in 1748, earned him admission to the Royal Society of London in 1752, and he became an associate of the French Academy of Inscriptions in 1754. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph de Guignes is the 226th most popular historian (up from 257th in 2019), the 3,040th most popular biography from France (up from 3,298th in 2019) and the 30th most popular French Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Joseph de Guignes ranks 226 out of 561. Before him are H. J. R. Murray, Saul Friedländer, Fritz Fischer, Khvandamir, Aban ibn Uthman, and Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés. After him are Constantine Lascaris, Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi, İbrahim Peçevi, Vasily Klyuchevsky, Albert Soboul, and Lyudmila Alexeyeva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1721, Joseph de Guignes ranks 13. Before him are Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach, Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano, Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, Tobias Smollett, and Samuel von Brukenthal. After him are Abdulaziz bin Muhammad Al Saud, Anna Dorothea Therbusch, Frederick Christian I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Francesco Sabatini, Roger Sherman, and Fredrik Henrik af Chapman. Among people deceased in 1800, Joseph de Guignes ranks 20. Before him are Jean-Antoine Marbot, Johann Hermann, John Blair Jr., François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé, Jean-Étienne Championnet, and Michał Kazimierz Ogiński. After him are Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle, Koca Yusuf Pasha, Friedrich Gilly, Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, William Cowper, and Michael Denis.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph de Guignes ranks 3,040 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Domat (1625), François Hanriot (1761), Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1845), Michel Audiard (1920), Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1874), and Antoine Louis (1723). After him are Jack Lang (1939), Joanni Perronet (1877), Édouard Chavannes (1865), Louis, Duke of Vendôme (1612), Jean-Louis Debré (1944), and Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans (1698).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Joseph de Guignes ranks 30. Before him are Charles Diehl (1859), George Cœdès (1886), Henri Maspero (1883), Paul Veyne (1930), Roger Chartier (1945), and Edgar Quinet (1803). After him are Bernard Desclot (1201), Charles Rollin (1661), Régine Pernoud (1909), André Clot (1909), Maxime Rodinson (1915), and Claude Cahen (1909).

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