ARCHAEOLOGIST

Austen Henry Layard

1817 - 1894

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Sir Austen Henry Layard (; 5 March 1817 – 5 July 1894) was an English Assyriologist, traveller, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat. He was born to a mostly English family in Paris and largely raised in Italy. He is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Austen Henry Layard has received more than 257,915 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Austen Henry Layard is the 20th most popular archaeologist (up from 22nd in 2019), the 1,478th most popular biography from France (down from 1,476th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Austen Henry Layard ranks 20 out of 151. Before him are Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Ciriaco de' Pizzicolli, George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, Oscar Montelius, Karl Richard Lepsius, and Louis Leakey. After him are Alcide d'Orbigny, Khaemweset, George Gaylord Simpson, Flinders Petrie, Leo Frobenius, and Aurel Stein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Austen Henry Layard ranks 18. Before him are Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Pierre Larousse, Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, and Theodor Storm. After him are Hermann Lotze, C. H. D. Buys Ballot, Albert von Kölliker, Branwell Brontë, Táhirih, and Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville. Among people deceased in 1894, Austen Henry Layard ranks 20. Before him are Leconte de Lisle, Theodor Billroth, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, August Kundt, Emmanuel Chabrier, and Hassan I of Morocco. After him are Nadezhda von Meck, Nikolai Ge, Guillaume Lekeu, Eugène Charles Catalan, Sante Geronimo Caserio, and Archduke Wilhelm Franz of Austria.

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In France

Among people born in France, Austen Henry Layard ranks 1,478 out of 6,770. Before him are Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756), Maurice Bucaille (1920), Hélène Carrère d'Encausse (1929), Warda Al-Jazairia (1939), Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (1220), and André Lhote (1885). After him are Jacques Charrier (1936), Guy de Chauliac (1300), Dominique Sanda (1948), Édouard Stephan (1837), Pierre Duhem (1861), and Paul Cornu (1881).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In France

Among archaeologists born in France, Austen Henry Layard ranks 2. Before him are Jean-François Champollion (1790). After him are Alcide d'Orbigny (1802), 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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