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ANTHROPOLOGIST

Birutė Galdikas

1946 - Today

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Birutė Marija Filomena Galdikas or Birutė Mary Galdikas, OC (born 10 May 1946), is a Lithuanian-Canadian anthropologist, primatologist, conservationist, ethologist, and author. She is a professor at Simon Fraser University. In the field of primatology, Galdikas is recognized as a leading authority on orangutans. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Birutė Galdikas has received more than 472,248 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Birutė Galdikas is the 35th most popular anthropologist (up from 43rd in 2019), the 2,660th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,112th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Anthropologist.

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  • 30

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  • 4.81

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  • 3.15

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Birutė Galdikas ranks 35 out of 69Before her are Marshall Sahlins, Jacques de Morgan, Ann Dunham, Pierre Clastres, Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, and Franco Basaglia. After her are Henry Fairfield Osborn, Bill Mollison, Fredrik Barth, Marcel Griaule, John Lloyd Stephens, and Lubor Niederle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Birutė Galdikas ranks 223Before her are Cheng Pei-pei, Renaud Camus, Arnoldo Alemán, Al Green, Sawao Kato, and Silvio Rodríguez. After her are Miguel Reina, René Jacobs, Jim Kelly, Grigory Margulis, George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, and Slim Borgudd.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Birutė Galdikas ranks 2,660 out of 6,142Before her are Joseph Dietzgen (1828), Carl Ludwig Blume (1796), Otto Schniewind (1887), Johann Peter Frank (1745), Joseph Weizenbaum (1923), and Louise Catherine Breslau (1856). After her are Friedrich Merz (1955), August von Platen-Hallermünde (1796), John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg (1525), Abraham Mignon (1640), Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1800), and Princess Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippe (1821).

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Germany

Among anthropologists born in Germany, Birutė Galdikas ranks 3Before her are Franz Boas (1858) and Wilhelm Schmidt (1868). After her are Fredrik Barth (1928), Johann Carl Fuhlrott (1803), Georg Moritz, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Altenburg (1900), and Adolf Bernhard Meyer (1840).

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