ARCHAEOLOGIST

E. A. Wallis Budge

1857 - 1934

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Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (27 July 1857 – 23 November 1934) was an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East. He made numerous trips to Egypt and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan on behalf of the British Museum to buy antiquities, and helped it build its collection of cuneiform tablets, manuscripts, and papyri. He published many books on Egyptology, helping to bring the findings to larger audiences. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of E. A. Wallis Budge has received more than 304,192 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). E. A. Wallis Budge is the 99th most popular archaeologist (down from 71st in 2019), the 3,462nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,688th in 2019) and the 19th most popular British Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, E. A. Wallis Budge ranks 99 out of 151. Before him are John Marshall, Jean-François Séguier, Massimo Pallottino, Zsófia Torma, John O. Westwood, and James Mellaart. After him are Henri Frankfort, Blaga Aleksova, Paul Rivet, James Prinsep, Désiré Charnay, and Hugo Winckler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, E. A. Wallis Budge ranks 112. Before him are Henry Dudeney, Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Constantin Coandă, Christian Wilhelm Allers, Milton S. Hershey, and Friedrich Reinitzer. After him are Otto Stapf, Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, Halil Pasha, Jules de Trooz, Clarence Darrow, and Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer. Among people deceased in 1934, E. A. Wallis Budge ranks 122. Before him are Jules Renkin, Fritz Graebner, Blind Blake, Gustav de Vries, Zabel Sibil Asadour, and Aristarkh Belopolsky. After him are Nelly Diener, Eduard Bagritsky, Orest Khvolson, Wallace Fard Muhammad, Manuel Márquez Sterling, and Pretty Boy Floyd.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, E. A. Wallis Budge ranks 3,462 out of 8,785. Before him are Keir Starmer (1962), James Mellaart (1925), Cherie Blair (1954), Nora Stanton Barney (1883), Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk (1893), and Frederick William Beechey (1796). After him are Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845), Leonard Meredith (1882), Jim Sturgess (1978), Peter Maxwell Davies (1934), Simeon Solomon (1840), and John Julius Norwich (1929).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, E. A. Wallis Budge ranks 19. Before him are Charles Dawson (1864), Dorothy Garrod (1892), John Evans (1823), John Marshall (1876), John O. Westwood (1805), and James Mellaart (1925). After him are James Prinsep (1799), Colin Groves (1942), Mortimer Wheeler (1890), Meave Leakey (1942), John Beazley (1885), and Dorothea Bate (1878).

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