ANTHROPOLOGIST

Eugène Dubois

1858 - 1940

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Marie Eugène François Thomas Dubois (French: [øʒɛn dybwɑ]; 28 January 1858 – 16 December 1940) was a Dutch paleoanthropologist and geologist. He earned worldwide fame for his discovery of Pithecanthropus erectus (later redesignated Homo erectus), or "Java Man". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugène Dubois has received more than 163,024 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Eugène Dubois is the 15th most popular anthropologist (down from 13th in 2019), the 158th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 124th in 2019) and the most popular Dutch Anthropologist.

Eugène Dubois is most famous for discovering the "Java Man" in 1891.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Eugène Dubois ranks 15 out of 93. Before him are Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, Gregory Bateson, Clifford Geertz, Knud Rasmussen, and Alfred Radcliffe-Brown. After him are E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Edward T. Hall, Mary Douglas, Mary Leakey, Marc Augé, and Victor Turner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Eugène Dubois ranks 32. Before him are Keke Geladze, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Princess Louise of Belgium, Giovanni Segantini, Michael Hainisch, and Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia. After him are André Antoine, Prince Valdemar of Denmark, Alessandro Moreschi, Lovis Corinth, Saad Zaghloul, and Prince Henry of Battenberg. Among people deceased in 1940, Eugène Dubois ranks 31. Before him are Gerda Wegener, Kyösti Kallio, Lluís Companys, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, and Michael Hainisch. After him are Édouard Vuillard, Vito Volterra, Katharina Schratt, Nicolae Iorga, Marcus Garvey, and Saionji Kinmochi.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Eugène Dubois ranks 158 out of 1,646. Before him are Ruud Lubbers (1939), Wim Kok (1938), Willem Claesz. Heda (1594), Antonia Brico (1902), Princess Irene of the Netherlands (1939), and Piet Keizer (1943). After him are Aelbert Cuyp (1620), Theo van Gogh (1957), Jan Pieterszoon Coen (1587), Pier Gerlofs Donia (1480), Ferdinand Bol (1616), and John II, Count of Holland (1247).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Netherlands

Among anthropologists born in Netherlands, Eugène Dubois ranks 1. 

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