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ARCHAEOLOGIST

Edward Robinson

1794 - 1863

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Edward Robinson (April 10, 1794 – January 27, 1863) was an American biblical scholar known for his magnum opus, Biblical Researches in Palestine, the first major work in Biblical Geography and Biblical Archaeology, which earned him the epithets "Father of Biblical Geography" and "Founder of Modern Palestinology." He studied in the United States and Germany, a center of biblical scholarship and exploration of the Bible as history. He translated scriptural works from classical languages, as well as German translations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Robinson has received more than 17,952 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Robinson is the 62nd most popular archaeologist (up from 65th in 2019), the 4,369th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,206th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Archaeologist.

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  • 20

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Edward Robinson ranks 62 out of 104. Before him are Giuseppe Fiorelli, Johan Gunnar Andersson, Halet Çambel, Robert Broom, Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae, and Margaret Murray. After him are Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, William F. Albright, Victor Loret, Heinrich Karl Brugsch, José Bonaparte, and Florentino Ameghino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, Edward Robinson ranks 35. Before him are Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Konstantin Thon, Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Joseph Lebeau, Wei Yuan, and Princess Amalie of Saxony. After him are Alexander Gordon Laing, Jeanne Villepreux-Power, Carl Borivoj Presl, Leopold Zunz, Achille Valenciennes, and Gerrit Schimmelpenninck. Among people deceased in 1863, Edward Robinson ranks 30. Before him are Peter Andreas Munch, Kamehameha IV, Giovanni Battista Amici, Alexander Karl, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg, James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, and Robert Gould Shaw. After him are Ignacio Comonfort, August Beer, Michel Garicoïts, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, Ferdinand, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, and Josephine Kablick.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edward Robinson ranks 4,369 out of 18,182. Before him are John Ashbery (1927), Greg LeMond (1961), Burt Kennedy (1922), Charles Fox Parham (1873), Alice Coltrane (1937), and Wil Wheaton (1972). After him are John Corbett (1961), Billy Herrington (1969), Lenny Wilkens (1937), Richard Yates (1926), Charles F. Brush (1849), and Greg Mankiw (1958).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United States

Among archaeologists born in United States, Edward Robinson ranks 6. Before him are Edward Drinker Cope (1840), Othniel Charles Marsh (1831), Robert Ballard (1942), George Gaylord Simpson (1902), and James Henry Breasted (1865). After him are Donald Johanson (1943), Sylvanus Morley (1883), Lewis Binford (1932), Michael D. Coe (1929), Carl Blegen (1887), and Robert John Braidwood (1907).

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