ARCHAEOLOGIST

Franz Weidenreich

1873 - 1948

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Franz Weidenreich (7 June 1873 – 11 July 1948) was a Jewish German anatomist and physical anthropologist who studied evolution. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Weidenreich has received more than 77,498 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Franz Weidenreich is the 113th most popular archaeologist (up from 131st in 2019), the 4,852nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,917th in 2019) and the 18th most popular German Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Franz Weidenreich ranks 113 out of 151Before her are Leon Kozłowski, Rudolf Wagner, Lewis Binford, Anne Stine Ingstad, Mortimer Wheeler, and Spyridon Marinatos. After her are Meave Leakey, Ekrem Akurgal, Robert T. Bakker, Zakaria Goneim, Grafton Elliot Smith, and Klaus Schmidt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Franz Weidenreich ranks 160Before her are Oskari Tokoi, Zivar bey Ahmadbeyov, Antonina Nezhdanova, Julieta Lanteri, Francisco Villota, and Étienne Desmarteau. After her are Boyd Alexander, Luise Fleck, Harry Spanjer, Carlos Mendieta, Enoch Sontonga, and Olaf Gulbransson. Among people deceased in 1948, Franz Weidenreich ranks 162Before her are Pencho Zlatev, Georg Kulenkampff, Gustav Schuft, George Milne, 1st Baron Milne, Adolf Kainz, and Edgar Kennedy. After her are Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey, Vasily Kachalov, Charles A. Beard, Ladislav Troják, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, and Henri Hazebrouck.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Franz Weidenreich ranks 4,852 out of 7,253Before her are Hansjörg Felmy (1931), Günther Oettinger (1953), Georg Calixtus (1586), Marco Bode (1969), Peter Struck (1943), and Johann Christoph Wendland (1755). After her are Barbara Krause (1959), Walter Giller (1927), Ludwig Stubbendorf (1906), Friedrich Ludwig Persius (1803), Adrian Sutil (1983), and Emil Rausch (1883).

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among archaeologists born in Germany, Franz Weidenreich ranks 18Before her are Adolf Furtwängler (1853), Halet Çambel (1916), Johann Andreas Wagner (1797), Ernst Herzfeld (1879), Hugo Winckler (1863), and Rudolf Wagner (1805). After her are Klaus Schmidt (1953).