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Theodor Mommsen

German classical scholar and historian

1817 - 1903

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His biography is available in 105 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 103 in 2024). Theodor Mommsen is the most popular archaeologist (up from 3rd in 2024), the 78th most popular biography from Germany (up from 95th in 2019) and the most popular German Archaeologist.

Theodor Mommsen was a German historian, archaeologist, and jurist. He is most famous for his work on Roman history.

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Theodor Mommsen is the top-ranked of all 151 Archaeologists in Pantheon worldwide.

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Theodor Mommsen's biography appears in 105 language editions of Wikipedia — more than 99% of all Archaeologists.

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Theodor Mommsen shares a November 30 birthday with Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, and Pope Gregory I.

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Among Archaeologists

Among archaeologists, Theodor Mommsen ranks 1 out of 151. After him are Jean-François Champollion, Heinrich Schliemann, Howard Carter, Edward Drinker Cope, Arthur Evans, Den, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Colin Renfrew, Semerkhet, Marija Gimbutas, and Johann Friedrich Blumenbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Theodor Mommsen ranks 2. Before him is Bahá'u'lláh. After him are Henry David Thoreau, Ivan Aivazovsky, William III of the Netherlands, Syed Ahmad Khan, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Charles-François Daubigny, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Carl Nägeli, and Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen. Among people deceased in 1903, Theodor Mommsen ranks 3. Before him are Pope Leo XIII, and Paul Gauguin. After him are Herbert Spencer, Camille Pissarro, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Alois Hitler, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Alexander I of Serbia, and Hugo Wolf.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Theodor Mommsen ranks 78 out of 7,253. Before him are Erich Fromm (1900), Ambrose (340), Albertus Magnus (1206), Karl Lagerfeld (1933), Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (1361), and Richard Strauss (1864). After him are Helmut Kohl (1930), Emil Fischer (1852), Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714), Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805), Martin Bormann (1900), and Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1050).

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Among Archaeologists In Germany

Among archaeologists born in Germany, Theodor Mommsen ranks 1. After him are Heinrich Schliemann (1822), Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752), Isdal Woman (1940), Karl Richard Lepsius (1810), Leo Frobenius (1873), Ernst Curtius (1814), Ami Boué (1794), Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1853), Max von Oppenheim (1860), Adolf Furtwängler (1853), and Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1827).

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