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Archibald Sayce

1845 - 1933

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Archibald Henry Sayce FRAS (25 September 1845 – 4 February 1933) was a pioneer British Assyriologist and linguist, who held a chair as Professor of Assyriology at the University of Oxford from 1891 to 1919. He was able to write in at least twenty ancient and modern languages, and was known for his emphasis on the importance of archaeological and monumental evidence in linguistic research. He was a contributor to articles in the 9th, 10th and 11th editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Archibald Sayce is the 14,766th most popular politician, the 3,718th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 488th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Archibald Sayce ranks 14,766 out of 19,576. Before him are James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope, Jan Dobraczyński, Thaddeus Stevens, Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, Corneliu Mănescu, and Yolanda Díaz. After him are Larry O'Brien, Fayez Tarawneh, Manuel Franco, Yuriy Lutsenko, Margaret Beckett, and Helmut Zilk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Archibald Sayce ranks 88. Before him are Edward Douglass White, Quanah Parker, Hermann Bollé, Fanny Churberg, Sámuel Teleki, and Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne. After him are Johan Henrik Deuntzer, Ragna Nielsen, Herbert Giles, Edmund Reitter, Johann Berger, and Wollert Konow. Among people deceased in 1933, Archibald Sayce ranks 120. Before him are Anita Rée, Otto Stapf, Baltasar Brum, George Moore, Ludwig Schlesinger, and Elizabeth Thompson. After him are Jack Pickford, Sakai Toshihiko, Anna Brigadere, John Arthur Jarvis, Achille Paroche, and Ismael Montes.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Archibald Sayce ranks 3,718 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland (1421), Richard of Chichester (1197), Bev Bevan (1944), Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter (1430), Gordon Haskell (1946), and Kathy Burke (1964). After him are Annabelle Wallis (1984), Margaret Beckett (1943), Anna Lee (1913), Mark Herman (1954), Amlaíb Cuarán (1000), and Roy Thomas Baker (1946).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Archibald Sayce ranks 488. Before him are Tony Benn (1925), Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain (1741), Erskine Hamilton Childers (1905), Tommy Douglas (1904), Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland (1421), and Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter (1430). After him are Margaret Beckett (1943), Amlaíb Cuarán (1000), Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel (1557), Prince Frederick of Great Britain (1750), Alex Salmond (1954), and Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1743).

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