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Léon Gautier

1832 - 1897

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Émile Théodore Léon Gautier (8 August 1832 – 25 August 1897) was a French literary historian. He was born at Le Havre, France. He was educated at the École des Chartes, and became successively head of the archives of the département of Haute-Marne (1856) and archivist at the Imperial Archives in Paris (1859). In 1874 he became a professor of palaeography at the École des Chartes. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Léon Gautier is the 378th most popular historian (up from 430th in 2019), the 4,192nd most popular biography from France (up from 4,481st in 2019) and the 50th most popular French Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Léon Gautier ranks 378 out of 561. Before him are John Keegan, Jacob Talmon, Leo Allatius, Heinrich Zimmer, Géza Alföldy, and Gottfried Arnold. After him are Heinrich von Sybel, Michele Amari, Peter Gay, Heinrich Gelzer, Ernest Labrousse, and Fritz Stern.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Léon Gautier ranks 74. Before him are Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line, Carl Friedrich Schmidt, Larin Paraske, Max Lange, Mary Ann Cotton, and Sergey Botkin. After him are Victor Meirelles, Carl Neumann, Luigi Jacobini, Mary Edwards Walker, Zsófia Torma, and Eugenio Montero Ríos. Among people deceased in 1897, Léon Gautier ranks 68. Before him are Alfred Des Cloizeaux, Aleko Konstantinov, Willem Roelofs, Gotō Shōjirō, Princess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau, and Mutsu Munemitsu. After him are Adam Asnyk, Oscar Dickson, Jan Heemskerk, Francesco Brioschi, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, and Edward Newton.

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In France

Among people born in France, Léon Gautier ranks 4,192 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre Veyron (1903), André Gaudin (1874), Pierre Pithou (1539), Lassana Diarra (1985), Michel Rousseau (1936), and Jakob Balde (1604). After him are Paul Le Guen (1964), Philippe Mexès (1982), Maurice Sachs (1906), Julie Dreyfus (1966), Henri Duveyrier (1840), and Désirée Artôt (1835).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Léon Gautier ranks 56. Before him are Stéphane Courtois (1947), André Clot (1909), Joseph-François Michaud (1767), George Cœdès (1886), Jean-Baptiste Du Halde (1674), Alain Besançon (1932), Jérôme Carcopino (1881), Ernest Labrousse (1895), Ernest Lavisse (1842), Marc Fumaroli (1932), Pierre Chaunu (1923), and Alain Daniélou (1907).

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