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 175,224 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Fredrik Barth is the 27th most popular anthropologist (up from 37th in 2019), the 2,208th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,746th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Fredrik Barth ranks 27 out of 93. Before him are Victor Turner, Cheikh Anta Diop, Marshall Sahlins, A. L. Kroeber, Ann Dunham, and Jacques de Morgan. After him are Marvin Harris, Raymond Dart, Pierre Clastres, Wilhelm Schmidt, Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, and Richard Leakey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Fredrik Barth ranks 167. Before him are Ralph Waite, Jean Kennedy Smith, Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, Henri Debehogne, Borisav Jović, and Kåre Willoch. After him are Walter Tevis, Dick York, Nick Holonyak, Ali Kafi, Line Renaud, and Pavel Kohout. Among people deceased in 2016, Fredrik Barth ranks 135. Before him are Louis Pilot, Greg Lake, Franco Citti, Juan Gabriel, Carmen Pereira, and Gato Barbieri. After him are Neville Marriner, Maurice White, Loris Francesco Capovilla, Gordie Howe, Roger Y. Tsien, and Arthur Hiller.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Fredrik Barth ranks 2,208 out of 7,253. Before him are Heinrich Aldegrever (1502), Werner Krauss (1884), Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony (1796), Joachim Streich (1951), Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel (1744), and Horst Seehofer (1949). After him are Karl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1762), Claude Dornier (1884), Heinz Hoffmann (1910), Walter Ruttmann (1887), Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Brandenburg (1383), and Friedrich Wieck (1785).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Germany

Among anthropologists born in Germany, Fredrik Barth ranks 2. Before him are Franz Boas (1858). After him are Wilhelm Schmidt (1868), Jean Malaurie (1922), Birutė Galdikas (1946), Johann Carl Fuhlrott (1803), and Adolf Bernhard Meyer (1840).

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