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Marc Bloch

1886 - 1944

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Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch ( BLOCK; French: [maʁk leɔpɔld bɛ̃ʒamɛ̃ blɔk]; 6 July 1886 – 16 June 1944) was a French historian. He was a founding member of the Annales School of French social history. Bloch specialised in medieval history and published widely on medieval France over the course of his career. As an academic, he worked at the University of Strasbourg (1920 to 1936 and 1940 to 1941), the University of Paris (1936 to 1939), and the University of Montpellier (1941 to 1944). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marc Bloch is the 34th most popular historian (down from 28th in 2019), the 533rd most popular biography from France (down from 423rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Historian.

Marc Bloch is most famous for his book "The Historian's Craft" which is a book about the history of French and European society.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Marc Bloch ranks 34 out of 561. Before him are Johan Huizinga, Ibn Kathir, Edward Gibbon, Jacob Burckhardt, Saxo Grammaticus, and Eric Hobsbawm. After him are Ibn Ishaq, Friedrich Carl von Savigny, Hippolyte Taine, Quintus Curtius Rufus, Leonardo Bruni, and Jacques Le Goff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Marc Bloch ranks 17. Before him are Sergey Kirov, Mir Osman Ali Khan, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Karl von Frisch, Ernst Thälmann, and Athenagoras I of Constantinople. After him are Karl Barth, René Guénon, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Theodor Morell, Gotthard Heinrici, and Archibald Hill. Among people deceased in 1944, Marc Bloch ranks 26. Before him are Thomas Midgley Jr., Galeazzo Ciano, Erwin von Witzleben, Manuel L. Quezon, Ernst Thälmann, and Michael Wittmann. After him are Milena Jesenská, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, Chūichi Nagumo, and Aristide Maillol.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marc Bloch ranks 533 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles Richet (1850), Francis, Duke of Guise (1519), André Citroën (1878), Pepin the Hunchback (770), Henri Barbusse (1873), and Jean-Louis Tauran (1943). After him are Lucien Bonaparte (1775), William II of England (1056), Emma of Normandy (985), Hippolyte Fizeau (1819), Joseph Joffre (1852), and Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Marc Bloch ranks 4. Before him are Tacitus (54), Alexis de Tocqueville (1805), and Fernand Braudel (1902). After him are Hippolyte Taine (1828), Jacques Le Goff (1924), Lucien Febvre (1878), François Guizot (1787), Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540), Geoffrey of Villehardouin (1150), Gaston Maspero (1846), and Georges Duby (1919).

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