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Giovanni Battista Belzoni

1778 - 1823

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Giovanni Battista Belzoni (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni batˈtista belˈtsoːni]; 5 November 1778 – 3 December 1823), sometimes known as The Great Belzoni, was a prolific Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni Battista Belzoni has received more than 333,342 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Giovanni Battista Belzoni is the 58th most popular explorer (up from 71st in 2019), the 823rd most popular biography from Italy (up from 953rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Italian Explorer.

Giovanni Battista Belzoni was a 19th-century Italian explorer and pioneer in Egyptology. He discovered the tomb of Seti I and other temples, and his work was published in his book Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Giovanni Battista Belzoni ranks 58 out of 405. Before him are William Adams, Hugh Glass, Samuel de Champlain, Henry Hudson, Diogo Cão, and Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse. After him are Michael Rockefeller, John Smith, James Clark Ross, Nikolay Przhevalsky, John Davis, and Antonio Pigafetta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1778, Giovanni Battista Belzoni ranks 10. Before him are Humphry Davy, Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, José de San Martín, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, and Fernando Sor. After him are Bernardo O'Higgins, Clemens Brentano, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, and Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. Among people deceased in 1823, Giovanni Battista Belzoni ranks 7. Before him are Edward Jenner, David Ricardo, Pope Pius VII, Louis-Nicolas Davout, Lazare Carnot, and Jacques Charles. After him are Ann Radcliffe, André-Jacques Garnerin, Charles François Dumouriez, Abraham-Louis Breguet, Edmund Cartwright, and Rafael del Riego.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Belzoni ranks 823 out of 4,668. Before him are Tarcisio Bertone (1934), Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (1701), Giacomo Agostini (1942), Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (1587), Alfonso II of Naples (1448), and Fausto Coppi (1919). After him are Giambattista Basile (1566), Romano Prodi (1939), Aristoxenus (-360), Gianluigi Buffon (1978), Phalaris (-700), and Louise of Orléans (1812).

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Among EXPLORERS In Italy

Among explorers born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Belzoni ranks 6. Before him are Marco Polo (1254), Christopher Columbus (1451), Amerigo Vespucci (1454), John Cabot (1450), and Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485). After him are Antonio Pigafetta (1492), Sebastian Cabot (1484), Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (1852), Bartholomew Columbus (1460), Alvise Cadamosto (1432), and Lancelotto Malocello (1270).

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