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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 337,450 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Giovanni Battista Belzoni is the 56th most popular explorer (up from 58th in 2019), the 773rd most popular biography from Italy (up from 821st 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 56 out of 498. Before him are Samuel de Champlain, Giovanni da Verrazzano, Ernest Shackleton, Diogo Cão, William Adams, and Hanno the Navigator. After him are Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, John Smith, Henry Hudson, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, Diogo Dias, and Yaqut al-Hamawi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1778, Giovanni Battista Belzoni ranks 9. Before him are Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Humphry Davy, Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, José de San Martín, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, and Johann Nepomuk Hummel. After him are Bernardo O'Higgins, Fernando Sor, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Clemens Brentano, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn. Among people deceased in 1823, Giovanni Battista Belzoni ranks 7. Before him are David Ricardo, Edward Jenner, Pope Pius VII, Louis-Nicolas Davout, Lazare Carnot, and Jacques Charles. After him are Charles François Dumouriez, Ann Radcliffe, André-Jacques Garnerin, Edmund Cartwright, Abraham-Louis Breguet, and Rafael del Riego.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Belzoni ranks 773 out of 5,161. Before him are Gianni Agnelli (1921), Tarcisius (263), Ferruccio Busoni (1866), Charles Martel of Anjou (1271), Lucius Cornelius Cinna (-135), and Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (1397). After him are Giovanni Paisiello (1740), Amalasuntha (495), Italo Balbo (1896), Agostino Carracci (1557), Vannozza dei Cattanei (1442), and Mina (1940).

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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 Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (1852), Sebastian Cabot (1484), Bartholomew Columbus (1460), Alvise Cadamosto (1432), Niccolò de' Conti (1395), and Lancelotto Malocello (1270).

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