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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 563,733 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Flinders Petrie is the 19th most popular archaeologist (down from 18th in 2019), the 974th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,051st in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Flinders Petrie ranks 19 out of 104. Before him are V. Gordon Childe, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Ciriaco de' Pizzicolli, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Oscar Montelius, and Aurel Stein. After him are Karl Richard Lepsius, Louis Leakey, Austen Henry Layard, Khaemweset, Leo Frobenius, and Bogdan Filov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Flinders Petrie ranks 29. Before him are Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, Emil Jellinek, Katharina Schratt, André Michelin, Kitasato Shibasaburō, and Vladimir Korolenko. After him are Louise Abbéma, Vladimir Shukhov, Miguel, Duke of Braganza, Pierre Paul Émile Roux, Sophia Perovskaya, and Wilhelm Dörpfeld. Among people deceased in 1942, Flinders Petrie ranks 42. Before him are Prince George, Duke of Kent, Tina Modotti, Chen Duxiu, Jan Kubiš, Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia, and Tamon Yamaguchi. After him are Joseph Franklin Rutherford, Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria, Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Franz Walter Stahlecker, and Grant Wood.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Flinders Petrie ranks 974 out of 7,765. Before him are John Dunstaple (1390), Slash (1965), Ian Curtis (1956), Herbert C. Brown (1912), James Anderson (1680), and Denholm Elliott (1922). After him are Princess Hélène of Orléans (1871), Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence (1451), Clive Sinclair (1940), Eadgyth (910), Eric Idle (1943), and Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (1480).

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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 Leonard Woolley (1880), John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834), Max Mallowan (1904), George Smith (1840), Alan Gardiner (1879), Colin Renfrew (1937), Robert Broom (1866), and Kathleen Kenyon (1906).

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