ARCHAEOLOGIST

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 a British 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 wife, Hilda Urlin. Some consider his most famous discovery to be that of the Merneptah Stele, an opinion with which Petrie himself concurred. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Flinders Petrie has received more than 604,786 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia. Flinders Petrie is the 24th most popular archaeologist (down from 19th in 2019), the 1,125th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 973rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Flinders Petrie ranks 24 out of 151. Before him are Karl Richard Lepsius, Louis Leakey, Austen Henry Layard, Alcide d'Orbigny, Khaemweset, and George Gaylord Simpson. After him are Leo Frobenius, Aurel Stein, Bogdan Filov, Paul Pelliot, Yuri Knorozov, and Othniel Charles Marsh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Flinders Petrie ranks 29. Before him are Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, Emil Jellinek, Kitasato Shibasaburō, Katharina Schratt, André Michelin, and Louise Abbéma. After him are Vladimir Korolenko, Antonio Salandra, Francesco Filippini, Sophia Perovskaya, Miguel, Duke of Braganza, and Fritz von Below. Among people deceased in 1942, Flinders Petrie ranks 58. Before him are Franz Walter Stahlecker, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, Thorvald Stauning, Ivan Bilibin, Germaine Dulac, and Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria. After him are Dorothea Klumpke, Leopold Berchtold, Heinz Hitler, Lauri Kristian Relander, Wilbur Scoville, and Yuri Kondratyuk.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Flinders Petrie ranks 1,125 out of 8,785. Before him are Charles Spearman (1863), Samuel Bellamy (1689), Bob Paisley (1919), Johannes de Sacrobosco (1195), Taron Egerton (1989), and Elizabeth Siddal (1829). After him are Leopold Stokowski (1882), John Schlesinger (1926), Alexander II of Scotland (1198), John Pople (1925), Idris Elba (1972), and Harold Lowe (1882).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, Flinders Petrie ranks 4. Before him are Howard Carter (1874), Arthur Evans (1851), and George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866). After him are George Smith (1840), John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834), Leonard Woolley (1880), Max Mallowan (1904), Colin Renfrew (1937), Robert Broom (1866), Alan Gardiner (1879), and Kathleen Kenyon (1906).

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