The Most Famous
ARCHAEOLOGISTS from Czechia
This page contains a list of the greatest Czech Archaeologists. The pantheon dataset contains 104 Archaeologists, 2 of which were born in Czechia. This makes Czechia the birth place of the 12th most number of Archaeologists behind Australia and Iraq.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Czech Archaeologists of all time. This list of famous Czech Archaeologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Karel Absolon (1877 - 1960)
With an HPI of 44.47, Karel Absolon is the most famous Czech Archaeologist. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Karel Absolon (16 June 1877 – 6 October 1960) was a Czech archaeologist, geographer, paleontologist, and speleologist. He was born in Boskovice. Absolon was the grandchild of paleontologist Jindřich Wankel. During his studies at Charles University in Prague he started with speleological research in the caves of Moravský kras (Moravian Karst) in the Moravia of what is now the Czech Republic. In 1907 he became the custodian of the Moravian museum in Brno and a professor of paleoanthropology at the Charles University in Prague in 1926. His most known works are the paleoanthropologic discoveries at Dolní Věstonice which include a Venus figurine. He worked on the systemic mapping of the Moravský kras, including the Macocha Abyss and the Pekárna, Punkevní and Kateřinská caves. He also explored karstic caves in the Balkans, France, and England. Absolon was very skilled in promoting himself and in popularizing his discoveries as a way to lure sponsors. Absolon died on 6 October 1960 in Brno. In 1961 a cave on the foot of Mt. Maggiore in the Italian Apuan Alps was discovered and named after Absolon.
2. Miroslav Verner (1941 - )
With an HPI of 41.79, Miroslav Verner is the 2nd most famous Czech Archaeologist. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Miroslav Verner (born October 31, 1941, in Brno) is a Czech egyptologist, who specializes in the history and archaeology of Ancient Egypt of the Old Kingdom and especially of the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt. Verner is a specialist on the archaeology of the Old Kingdom pyramids, and published one of the fundamental syntheses on the subject, in a new, updated edition in 2021.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as archaeologists born between 1877 and 1941. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living archaeologists include Miroslav Verner. The most famous deceased archaeologists include Karel Absolon. As of April 2022, 2 new archaeologists have been added to Pantheon including Karel Absolon and Miroslav Verner.
