The Most Famous
ARCHAEOLOGISTS from Georgia
This page contains a list of the greatest Georgian Archaeologists. The pantheon dataset contains 104 Archaeologists, 1 of which were born in Georgia. This makes Georgia the birth place of the 23rd most number of Archaeologists behind Chile and Argentina.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Georgian Archaeologists of all time. This list of famous Georgian Archaeologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Joseph Orbeli (1887 - 1961)
With an HPI of 48.18, Joseph Orbeli is the most famous Georgian Archaeologist. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
Joseph Orbeli (Armenian: Հովսեփ Աբգարի Օրբելի, Hovsep Abgari Orbeli; Russian: Иосиф Абгарович Орбели, romanized: Iosif Abgarovich Orbeli; 20 March (O.S. 8 March) 1887 – 2 February 1961) was a Soviet-Armenian orientalist, public figure and academician who specialized in medieval history of Transcaucasia and administered the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad from 1934 to 1951. He was the founder and first president of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences (1943–47).
Pantheon has 1 people classified as archaeologists born between 1887 and 1887. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased archaeologists include Joseph Orbeli.
