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Maxime Rodinson

1915 - 2004

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Maxime Rodinson (French: [ʁɔdɛ̃sɔ̃]; 26 January 1915 – 23 May 2004) was a French historian and sociologist. Ideologically a Marxist, Rodinson was a prominent authority in oriental studies. He was the son of a Russian-Polish clothing trader and his wife, who both were murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp. After studying oriental languages, he became a professor of Ge'ez at the École pratique des hautes études. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maxime Rodinson is the 271st most popular historian (down from 233rd in 2019), the 3,315th most popular biography from France (down from 3,157th in 2019) and the 35th most popular French Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Maxime Rodinson ranks 271 out of 561. Before him are Peter Brown, Frederick Jackson Turner, Festus, Elishe, André Clot, and A. H. M. Jones. After him are Ahmad Kasravi, Yitzhak Arad, Jerónimo Zurita y Castro, Karl Otfried Müller, John Foxe, and Gustav Hugo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Maxime Rodinson ranks 126. Before him are Henner Henkel, Eddie Bracken, Alberto Burri, Nam Il, Kenneth Arnold, and Nguyễn Văn Linh. After him are Wee Kim Wee, Vítězslava Kaprálová, Torcuato Fernández-Miranda, Henry Kuttner, Amedeo Biavati, and Raúl Alberto Lastiri. Among people deceased in 2004, Maxime Rodinson ranks 138. Before him are Piero Piccioni, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, Werner Goldberg, Naomi Shemer, James Quinn, and Joe Viterelli. After him are Ota Šik, Ivan Hlinka, Antonio Gades, Cem Karaca, Janet Frame, and Tiziano Terzani.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maxime Rodinson ranks 3,315 out of 6,770. Before him are André Clot (1909), Vincent Voiture (1597), Charles Pathé (1863), Aimeric de Peguilhan (1200), Georges Rayet (1839), and Louis-Sébastien Lenormand (1757). After him are Sébastien Faure (1858), René Huyghe (1906), Alfred Bruneau (1857), Virginie Demont-Breton (1859), Nicolas de Grigny (1672), and Claude Pompidou (1912).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Maxime Rodinson ranks 35. Before him are Edgar Quinet (1803), Joseph de Guignes (1721), Bernard Desclot (1201), Charles Rollin (1661), Régine Pernoud (1909), and André Clot (1909). After him are Claude Cahen (1909), Georges Lefebvre (1874), Gustave Schlumberger (1844), Stéphane Courtois (1947), Marc Ferro (1924), and Gustave Lanson (1857).

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