ANTHROPOLOGIST

Georges Vacher de Lapouge

1854 - 1936

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Count Georges Vacher de Lapouge (French: [vaʃe də lapuʒ]; 12 December 1854 – 20 February 1936) was a French anthropologist and a theoretician of eugenics and scientific racism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges Vacher de Lapouge has received more than 127,258 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Georges Vacher de Lapouge is the 43rd most popular anthropologist (up from 44th in 2019), the 3,277th most popular biography from France (down from 3,156th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Georges Vacher de Lapouge ranks 43 out of 93. Before him are Jean Malaurie, David Graeber, Paolo Mantegazza, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, Aleš Hrdlička, and Louis Dumont. After him are Lubor Niederle, John Lloyd Stephens, Birutė Galdikas, Raymond Firth, Bill Mollison, and Gilberto Freyre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Georges Vacher de Lapouge ranks 62. Before him are Vasil Radoslavov, Christiaan de Wet, Ottmar Mergenthaler, Adolf Erman, John Kemp Starley, and Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa. After him are Arnošt Muka, Jane Toppan, Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov, Isidor Gunsberg, Ludwig von Pastor, and José Canalejas. Among people deceased in 1936, Georges Vacher de Lapouge ranks 105. Before him are Fatma Aliye Topuz, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, Oscar Wisting, Bhikaiji Cama, and Karl Buresch. After him are Walther Wever, John Scott Haldane, Eino Rahja, Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Ramiro Ledesma Ramos, and Ignacy Daszyński.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Vacher de Lapouge ranks 3,277 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis, Duke of Guyenne (1397), Victor Loret (1859), René Daumal (1908), Georges Franju (1912), Tristan Bernard (1866), and Léon Gaumont (1864). After him are René de Saussure (1868), Olivier Blanchard (1948), John II, Count of Nevers (1415), Daniel-Rops (1901), Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes (1719), and Étienne Carjat (1828).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In France

Among anthropologists born in France, Georges Vacher de Lapouge ranks 6. Before him are Paul Broca (1824), Marc Augé (1935), Jacques de Morgan (1857), Pierre Clastres (1934), and Marcel Griaule (1898). After him are Alfred Sauvy (1898), Maurice Godelier (1934), Georges Balandier (1920), Philippe Descola (1949), Yves Coppens (1934), and Marcellin Boule (1861).

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