WRITER

Édouard Chavannes

1865 - 1918

Photo of Édouard Chavannes

Icon of person Édouard Chavannes

Émmanuel-Édouard Chavannes (5 October 1865 – 29 January 1918) was a French sinologist and expert on Chinese history and religion, and is best known for his translations of major segments of Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, the work's first ever translation into a Western language. Chavannes was a prolific and influential scholar, and was one of the most accomplished Sinologists of the modern era notwithstanding his relatively early death at age 52 in 1918. A successor of 19th century French sinologists Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat and Stanislas Julien, Chavannes was largely responsible for the development of Sinology and Chinese scholarship into a respected field in the realm of French scholarship. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Édouard Chavannes is the 2,824th most popular writer (up from 5,216th in 2019), the 3,043rd most popular biography from France (up from 4,607th in 2019) and the 385th most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Édouard Chavannes by language

Loading...

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Édouard Chavannes ranks 2,824 out of 7,302. Before him are Colleen Hoover, Pentti Linkola, Juan Boscán Almogáver, Justus of Tiberias, Alice Schwarzer, and Tullia d'Aragona. After him are Wipo of Burgundy, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Mihail Sadoveanu, Lucius Aelius Stilo Praeconinus, Ludwig Rellstab, and Marthe Bibesco.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Édouard Chavannes ranks 92. Before him are Anandi Gopal Joshi, James Henry Breasted, Epitácio Pessoa, Henri Desgrange, Eugene Botkin, and Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont. After him are Afonso, Duke of Porto, Max Heindel, Wilson Bentley, Josef Fischer, Heinrich Rubens, and Tan Sitong. Among people deceased in 1918, Édouard Chavannes ranks 99. Before him are Korbinian Brodmann, Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt, Károly Khuen-Héderváry, Eduard, Duke of Anhalt, Wilfred Owen, and James Gordon Bennett Jr.. After him are George Tupou II, Prince Constantine Constantinovich of Russia, Ewald Hering, Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia, Charlie Soong, and Anna Demidova.

Others Born in 1865

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1918

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In France

Among people born in France, Édouard Chavannes ranks 3,043 out of 6,770. Before him are Michel Audiard (1920), Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1874), Antoine Louis (1723), Joseph de Guignes (1721), Jack Lang (1939), and Joanni Perronet (1877). After him are Louis, Duke of Vendôme (1612), Jean-Louis Debré (1944), Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans (1698), Alain Bombard (1924), Albert Girard (1595), and Guiraut Riquier (1230).

Others born in France

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Édouard Chavannes ranks 385. Before him are Maurice de Guérin (1810), Gustave Kahn (1859), Guillaume Thomas François Raynal (1713), Sextus Pompeius Festus (150), Nicholas Rémy (1530), and Oscar Cullmann (1902). After him are Guiraut Riquier (1230), Jules Vallès (1832), Catulle Mendès (1841), Hilaire Belloc (1870), Bernard Werber (1961), and Robert Garnier (1534).

French born Writers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous