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Flinders Petrie

1853 - 1942

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Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie ((1853-06-03)3 June 1853 – (1942-07-28)28 July 1942), commonly known as simply Sir Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and the preservation of artefacts. He held the first chair of Egyptology in the United Kingdom, and excavated many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt in conjunction with his Irish-born wife, Hilda Urlin. Some consider his most famous discovery to be that of the Merneptah Stele, an opinion with which Petrie himself concurred. Undoubtedly at least as important is his 1905 discovery and correct identification of the character of the Proto-Sinaitic script, the ancestor of almost all alphabetic scripts. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Flinders Petrie is the 27th most popular archaeologist (down from 24th in 2019), the 1,387th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,126th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Flinders Petrie ranks 27 out of 151. Before him are Karl Richard Lepsius, George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, Oscar Montelius, Khaemweset, Louis Leakey, and Austen Henry Layard. After him are Othniel Charles Marsh, Leo Frobenius, John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, Paul Pelliot, George Gaylord Simpson, and Bogdan Filov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Flinders Petrie ranks 30. Before him are Kitasato Shibasaburō, Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Emil Jellinek, André Michelin, Francesco Filippini, and Miguel, Duke of Braganza. After him are Antonio Salandra, Vladimir Korolenko, Vladimir Shukhov, Pierre Paul Émile Roux, André Messager, and Roberto Ferruzzi. Among people deceased in 1942, Flinders Petrie ranks 58. Before him are Ivan Bilibin, Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal, Henri de Baillet-Latour, Thorvald Stauning, and Franz Walter Stahlecker. After him are Alfred Flatow, Hugh S. Johnson, Georg Stumme, Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria, Avraham Stern, and Germaine Dulac.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Flinders Petrie ranks 1,387 out of 8,785. Before him are Jeremy Corbyn (1949), Keira Knightley (1985), Harriet Taylor Mill (1807), Frank Lampard (1948), Henry Tingle Wilde (1872), and Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799). After him are Simon Phillips (1957), John Smyth (1570), Smithson Tennant (1761), Geraldine McEwan (1932), John Lindley (1799), and Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (1883).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, Flinders Petrie ranks 6. Before him are Howard Carter (1874), Arthur Evans (1851), Colin Renfrew (1937), George Smith (1840), and George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866). After him are John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834), Leonard Woolley (1880), John O. Westwood (1805), Max Mallowan (1904), Robert Broom (1866), and Colin Groves (1942).

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