Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Edgar
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Bourg-en-Bresse
- Place of death
- Versailles
- Occupation
- professor
- Position held
- member of the French National Assembly
- Employer
- Collège de France
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Image
- Edgar Quinet vers 1860.jpg
- Work location
- Paris
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- writing language
- French
- name in native language
- Edgar Quinet
- Commons Creator page
- Edgar Quinet
- place of burial
- Montparnasse Cemetery
- Commons category
- Edgar Quinet
- date of birth
- 1803-02-17
- date of death
- 1875-03-27
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- has written for
- Revue des Deux Mondes
- member of
- Romanian Academy
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Encyclopedic overview
Edgar Quinet photographed in 1860 Edgar Quinet ( French: [kinɛ]; 17 February 1803 – 27 March 1875) was a French historian and intellectual.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Edgar Quinet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.