1876 - 1960
Alfred Louis Kroeber ( KROH-bər; June 11, 1876 – October 5, 1960) was an American cultural anthropologist. He received his PhD under Franz Boas at Columbia University in 1901, the first doctorate in anthropology awarded by Columbia. He was also the first professor appointed to the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of A. L. Kroeber has received more than 104,554 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). A. L. Kroeber is the 17th most popular anthropologist (down from 13th in 2019), the 1,718th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,045th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Anthropologist.
Alfred Louis Kroeber was an American anthropologist, ethnologist, and linguist. He is considered to be the father of cultural anthropology in the United States. His most famous work is The Nature of Culture, which was published in 1952.
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Among anthropologists, A. L. Kroeber ranks 17 out of 69. Before him are Clifford Geertz, Gregory Bateson, Eugène Dubois, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, and Knud Rasmussen. After him are Edward T. Hall, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, Mary Leakey, Richard Leakey, and Marvin Harris.
1926 - 2006
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 11
1904 - 1980
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 12
1858 - 1940
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 13
1881 - 1955
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 14
1902 - 1973
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 15
1879 - 1933
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 16
1876 - 1960
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 17
1914 - 2009
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 18
1921 - 2007
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 19
1920 - 1983
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 20
1913 - 1996
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 21
1944 - 2022
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 22
1927 - 2001
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 23
Among people born in 1876, A. L. Kroeber ranks 46. Before him are Rodolphe Seeldrayers, Ivan Cankar, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Ziya Gökalp, and Arthur Moeller van den Bruck. After him are Ivan Bilibin, August Sander, Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark, Tomáš Baťa, Anna de Noailles, and Fevzi Çakmak. Among people deceased in 1960, A. L. Kroeber ranks 41. Before him are Beno Gutenberg, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Salvatore Ferragamo, Norodom Suramarit, Clara Haskil, and Soghomon Tehlirian. After him are Jussi Björling, Otoya Yamaguchi, Jacques Becker, Frank Lloyd, Inejiro Asanuma, and Leonard Woolley.
1876 - 1955
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 40
1876 - 1918
HPI: 59.98
Rank: 41
1876 - 1907
HPI: 59.71
Rank: 42
1876 - 1934
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 43
1876 - 1924
HPI: 58.81
Rank: 44
1876 - 1925
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 45
1876 - 1960
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 46
1876 - 1942
HPI: 58.44
Rank: 47
1876 - 1964
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 48
1876 - 1940
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 49
1876 - 1932
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 50
1876 - 1933
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 51
1876 - 1950
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 52
1889 - 1960
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 35
1896 - 1960
HPI: 58.94
Rank: 36
1898 - 1960
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 37
1896 - 1960
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 38
1895 - 1960
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 39
1896 - 1960
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 40
1876 - 1960
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 41
1911 - 1960
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 42
1943 - 1960
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 43
1906 - 1960
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 44
1886 - 1960
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 45
1898 - 1960
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 46
1880 - 1960
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 47
Among people born in United States, A. L. Kroeber ranks 1,718 out of 18,182. Before him are Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929), Floyd Patterson (1935), Jim Rogers (1942), Edwin S. Porter (1870), Barbara W. Tuchman (1912), and Edward Albee (1928). After him are Angela Bassett (1958), Joe Jackson (1928), Eva Mendes (1974), Norman Mailer (1923), Stephen Jay Gould (1941), and Juliet Anderson (1938).
1929 - 2021
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 1,712
1935 - 2006
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 1,713
1942 - Present
HPI: 58.53
Rank: 1,714
1870 - 1941
HPI: 58.53
Rank: 1,715
1912 - 1989
HPI: 58.53
Rank: 1,716
1928 - 2016
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 1,717
1876 - 1960
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 1,718
1958 - Present
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 1,719
1928 - 2018
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 1,720
1974 - Present
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 1,721
1923 - 2007
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 1,722
1941 - 2002
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 1,723
1938 - 2010
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 1,724
Among anthropologists born in United States, A. L. Kroeber ranks 5. Before him are Lewis H. Morgan (1818), Margaret Mead (1901), Ruth Benedict (1887), and Clifford Geertz (1926). After him are Edward T. Hall (1914), Marvin Harris (1927), Leslie White (1900), Marshall Sahlins (1930), Ann Dunham (1942), Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857), and John Lloyd Stephens (1805).
1818 - 1881
HPI: 68.86
Rank: 1
1901 - 1978
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 2
1887 - 1948
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 3
1926 - 2006
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 4
1876 - 1960
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 5
1914 - 2009
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 6
1927 - 2001
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 7
1900 - 1971
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 8
1930 - 2021
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 9
1942 - 1995
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 10
1857 - 1935
HPI: 52.88
Rank: 11
1805 - 1852
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 12