ARCHAEOLOGIST

Alcide d'Orbigny

1802 - 1857

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Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (6 September 1802 – 30 June 1857) was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas, including zoology (including malacology), palaeontology, geology, archaeology and anthropology. D'Orbigny was born in Couëron (Loire-Atlantique), the son of a ship's physician and amateur naturalist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alcide d'Orbigny has received more than 63,564 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Alcide d'Orbigny is the 21st most popular archaeologist (up from 26th in 2019), the 1,550th most popular biography from France (up from 1,736th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Archaeologist.

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Alcide d'Orbigny ranks 21 out of 151. Before him are Ciriaco de' Pizzicolli, George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, Oscar Montelius, Karl Richard Lepsius, Louis Leakey, and Austen Henry Layard. After him are Khaemweset, George Gaylord Simpson, Flinders Petrie, Leo Frobenius, Aurel Stein, and Bogdan Filov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Alcide d'Orbigny ranks 18. Before him are Germain Henri Hess, Heinrich Gustav Magnus, Pavel Nakhimov, Husein Gradaščević, Antoine Jérôme Balard, and Harriet Martineau. After him are Nikolaus Lenau, Hermann Goldschmidt, Ignacy Domeyko, Charlotte Bonaparte, Carl Ritter von Ghega, and Charles Auguste de Bériot. Among people deceased in 1857, Alcide d'Orbigny ranks 19. Before him are Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Louis Jacques Thénard, Johan Christian Dahl, Mangal Pandey, and Josef Ressel. After him are Marquis de Custine, George Cayley, Théodolinde de Beauharnais, Achille Devéria, Hinrich Lichtenstein, and Vasily Tropinin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alcide d'Orbigny ranks 1,550 out of 6,770. Before him are Arnaud Amalric (1160), Eugène Schueller (1881), Henri Murger (1822), Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne (1787), Louis-Gabriel Suchet (1770), and Henri Pitot (1695). After him are Philip, Duke of Orléans (1336), Peter II, Duke of Bourbon (1438), Micheline Presle (1922), Adalberon (947), Olivier Giroud (1986), and Roger Lemerre (1941).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In France

Among archaeologists born in France, Alcide d'Orbigny ranks 3. Before him are Jean-François Champollion (1790), and Austen Henry Layard (1817). After him are Paul Pelliot (1878), André Leroi-Gourhan (1911), Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788), Henri Breuil (1877), Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet (1821), Victor Loret (1859), Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac (1778), André Parrot (1901), and Pierre Montet (1885).

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