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ARCHAEOLOGIST

George Smith

1840 - 1876

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George Smith (26 March 1840 – 19 August 1876) was a pioneering English Assyriologist who first discovered and translated the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest-known written works of literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Smith has received more than 57,933 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). George Smith is the 41st most popular archaeologist (up from 44th in 2019), the 1,580th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,110th in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Archaeologist.

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  • 24

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  • 2.40

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, George Smith ranks 41 out of 104. Before him are André Leroi-Gourhan, John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, Max Mallowan, Yuri Knorozov, Henri Breuil, and Ernst Curtius. After him are Meritites I, Hat Hor, Paul-Émile Botta, James Henry Breasted, Alan Gardiner, and Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, George Smith ranks 34. Before him are Kuroda Kiyotaka, Sisowath of Cambodia, Emin Pasha, Hiram Maxim, Namık Kemal, and William, Prince of Orange. After him are Gall, August Leskien, Gabriel von Max, Marie Bracquemond, Akaki Tsereteli, and Manuel de Arriaga. Among people deceased in 1876, George Smith ranks 24. Before him are Ferenc Deák, Wild Bill Hickok, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Juan Pablo Duarte, Duchess Caroline Mariane of Mecklenburg, and Narcisse Virgilio Díaz. After him are Friedrich Christian Diez, Eugène Fromentin, Harriet Martineau, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, Philipp Mainländer, and Infanta Isabel Maria of Braganza.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, George Smith ranks 1,580 out of 7,765. Before him are Maurice Wilkes (1913), Rupert Sheldrake (1942), Mary Ann Cotton (1832), Rafael Merry del Val (1865), Roger Hunt (1938), and Eric Knight (1897). After him are Kate Moss (1974), Sam Worthington (1976), James Edward Smith (1759), Steve Hackett (1950), Walter Bagehot (1826), and Howard Staunton (1810).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, George Smith ranks 8. Before him are Arthur Evans (1851), George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866), Flinders Petrie (1853), Leonard Woolley (1880), John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834), and Max Mallowan (1904). After him are Alan Gardiner (1879), Colin Renfrew (1937), Robert Broom (1866), Kathleen Kenyon (1906), E. A. Wallis Budge (1857), and John Evans (1823).

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