The Most Famous
ARCHAEOLOGISTS from Chile
This page contains a list of the greatest Chilean Archaeologists. The pantheon dataset contains 151 Archaeologists, 1 of which were born in Chile. This makes Chile the birth place of the 21st most number of Archaeologists behind Greece, and India.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Chilean Archaeologists of all time. This list of famous Chilean Archaeologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. William F. Albright (1891 - 1971)
With an HPI of 50.74, William F. Albright is the most famous Chilean Archaeologist. His biography has been translated into 24 different languages on wikipedia.
William Foxwell Albright (May 24, 1891– September 19, 1971) was an American archaeologist, biblical scholar, philologist, and expert on ceramics. He is considered "one of the twentieth century's most influential American biblical scholars", having become known to the public in 1948 for his role in the authentication of the Dead Sea Scrolls. His scholarly reputation arose as a leading theorist and practitioner of biblical archaeology. Albright was a leading theorist and practitioner of biblical archaeology, and is regarded as the founder of the biblical archaeology movement. He served as the W. W. Spence Professor of Semitic Languages at Johns Hopkins University from 1930 to 1958 and was the Director of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem for several terms between 1922 and 1936. Albright made significant contributions to the fields of Near Eastern studies, biblical archaeology, and ceramic typology, and his work has had a lasting impact on the understanding of ancient Near Eastern history and the historicity of the Bible.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Chilean archaeologists born between 1891 and 1891. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Chilean archaeologists include William F. Albright.
