ANTHROPOLOGIST

Bronisław Malinowski

1884 - 1942

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Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (Polish: [brɔˈɲiswaf maliˈnɔfskʲi]; 7 April 1884 – 16 May 1942) was a Polish anthropologist and ethnologist whose writings on ethnography, social theory, and field research have exerted a lasting influence on the discipline of anthropology. Malinowski was born and raised in what was part of the Austrian partition of Poland, Kraków. He graduated from King John III Sobieski 2nd High School. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bronisław Malinowski has received more than 1,345,303 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia. Bronisław Malinowski is the 2nd most popular anthropologist, the 43rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 35th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Anthropologist.

Bronisław malinowski is most famous for his fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands. Malinowski was a Polish anthropologist who studied the people of the Trobriand Islands and their culture.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Bronisław Malinowski ranks 2 out of 93. Before him are Claude Lévi-Strauss. After him are James George Frazer, Jane Goodall, Edward Burnett Tylor, Lewis H. Morgan, Paul Broca, Margaret Mead, Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, Gregory Bateson, and Clifford Geertz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Bronisław Malinowski ranks 8. Before him are Harry S. Truman, Amedeo Modigliani, Isoroku Yamamoto, Edvard Beneš, İsmet İnönü, and Hideki Tojo. After him are Casimir Funk, Édouard Daladier, Anton Drexler, Max Brod, Theodor Heuss, and Franz Halder. Among people deceased in 1942, Bronisław Malinowski ranks 7. Before him are Stefan Zweig, Reinhard Heydrich, Janusz Korczak, Robert Musil, Edith Stein, and José Raúl Capablanca. After him are Anton Drexler, Jean Baptiste Perrin, Lucy Maud Montgomery, William G. Morgan, Richard Willstätter, and William Henry Bragg.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Bronisław Malinowski ranks 43 out of 1,694. Before him are Maximilian Kolbe (1894), Kurt Lewin (1890), Christian Wolff (1679), Vladislaus II of Hungary (1456), Irena Sendler (1910), and Otto Stern (1888). After him are Arthur Rubinstein (1887), Casimir Funk (1884), Rudolf Clausius (1822), Rudolf Virchow (1821), Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768), and Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Poland

Among anthropologists born in Poland, Bronisław Malinowski ranks 1. After him are Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring (1755).

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