The Most Famous
ARCHAEOLOGISTS from Ukraine
This page contains a list of the greatest Ukrainian Archaeologists. The pantheon dataset contains 151 Archaeologists, 1 of which were born in Ukraine. This makes Ukraine the birth place of the 17th most number of Archaeologists behind Kenya, and Bulgaria.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Ukrainian Archaeologists of all time. This list of famous Ukrainian Archaeologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Yuri Knorozov (1922 - 1999)
With an HPI of 57.32, Yuri Knorozov is the most famous Ukrainian Archaeologist. His biography has been translated into 31 different languages on wikipedia.
Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov (Russian: Ю́рий Валенти́нович Кноро́зов; 19 November 1922 – 31 March 1999) was a Soviet and Russian linguist, epigrapher, and ethnographer. He became the founder of the Soviet school of Mayan studies, and his identification of the existence of syllabic signs proved an essential step forward in the eventual decipherment of the Mayan script, the writing system used by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica.
2. Ivan Borkovský (1897 - 1976)
With an HPI of 44.30, Ivan Borkovský is the 2nd most famous Ukrainian Archaeologist. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Ivan Borkovský (original name Ivan Borkovskyy-Dunin; 8 September 1897 – 17 March 1976) was a Austro-Hungarian Empire-born Czechoslovakian archaeologist. He spent his early career as a soldier fighting for the Austro-Hungarian Army against the Russians in the First World War. He later served in the Ukrainian War of Independence and fought for both the White and Red Armies in the Russian Civil War. Borkovský fled to Czechoslovakia in 1920 and, after a period in internment camps, settled there. He graduated with a degree in archaeology from Prague's Charles University and headed up excavations at Prague Castle as well as at Czernin Palace. Borkovský's discovery of the Prague Castle skeleton led to conflict with German occupying forces during the Second World War who were keen to find evidence of early German involvement in the region. Under threat of being sent to a concentration camp Borkovský was forced to issue a paper identifying the skeleton as of Germanic origin and to withdraw a book publicising early Slavic pottery from the area. After the war he came under suspicion from Soviet forces for his pro-German interpretation and, after being spared from being sent to a gulag, issued a paper retracting his earlier interpretation and describing the skeleton as a Slav. After the war he carried out further excavations in Prague, including at the Levý Hradec, and served as chairman of the Archaeological Society of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Ukrainian archaeologists born between 1897 and 1922. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Ukrainian archaeologists include Yuri Knorozov, and Ivan Borkovský. As of April 2024, 1 new Ukrainian archaeologists have been added to Pantheon including Ivan Borkovský.
