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ANTHROPOLOGIST

Fredrik Barth

1928 - 2016

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Thomas Fredrik Weybye Barth (22 December 1928 – 24 January 2016) was a Norwegian social anthropologist who published several ethnographic books with a clear formalist view. He was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Boston University, and previously held professorships at the University of Oslo, the University of Bergen (where he founded the Department of Social Anthropology), Emory University and Harvard University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fredrik Barth has received more than 168,240 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Fredrik Barth is the 38th most popular anthropologist (down from 32nd in 2019), the 2,749th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,378th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Fredrik Barth ranks 38 out of 69. Before him are Pierre Clastres, Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Franco Basaglia, Birutė Galdikas, Henry Fairfield Osborn, and Bill Mollison. After him are Marcel Griaule, John Lloyd Stephens, Lubor Niederle, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, Ralph Linton, and David Graeber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Fredrik Barth ranks 213. Before him are Ara Güler, Alejandro de Tomaso, Bill Mollison, Joan Martí i Alanis, Lennart Carleson, and Hans Herrmann. After him are Saw Maung, Henri Debehogne, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Mohammad Beheshti, Arthur Melvin Okun, and Jörg Demus. Among people deceased in 2016, Fredrik Barth ranks 172. Before him are Silvio Gazzaniga, Guido Westerwelle, Lola Novaković, Jay Wright Forrester, Bill Mollison, and Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia. After him are Artur Fischer, Fazil Iskander, Zdravko Tolimir, Franciszek Macharski, Scotty Moore, and Binyamin Ben-Eliezer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Fredrik Barth ranks 2,749 out of 6,142. Before him are Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743), Maximilian Fretter-Pico (1892), Kurt Hahn (1886), William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (1560), Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1727), and Heinrich Marx (1777). After him are Abraham Geiger (1810), Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754), Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1796), Artur Fischer (1919), Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1582), and Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1519).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Germany

Among anthropologists born in Germany, Fredrik Barth ranks 4. Before him are Franz Boas (1858), Wilhelm Schmidt (1868), and Birutė Galdikas (1946). After him are Johann Carl Fuhlrott (1803), Georg Moritz, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Altenburg (1900), and Adolf Bernhard Meyer (1840).

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