ARCHAEOLOGIST

Giuseppe Tucci

1894 - 1984

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Giuseppe Tucci (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe ˈtuttʃi]; 5 June 1894 – 5 April 1984) was an Italian orientalist, Indologist and scholar of East Asian studies, specializing in Tibetan culture and the history of Buddhism. During its zenith, Tucci was a supporter of Italian fascism, and he used idealized portrayals of Asian traditions to support Italian ideological campaigns. Tucci was fluent in several European languages, Sanskrit, Bengali, Pali, Prakrit, Chinese and Tibetan and he taught at the University of Rome La Sapienza until his death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giuseppe Tucci has received more than 108,342 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Giuseppe Tucci is the 66th most popular archaeologist (up from 70th in 2019), the 3,009th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,950th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Italian Archaeologist.

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Giuseppe Tucci ranks 66 out of 151. Before him are Robert Broom, Victor Loret, Alan Gardiner, Charles W. Gilmore, Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac, and André Parrot. After him are José Bonaparte, Pierre Montet, Peter Wilhelm Lund, François Bordes, Joseph Orbeli, and Florentino Ameghino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Giuseppe Tucci ranks 149. Before him are Bertha Lutz, Willem Schermerhorn, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Aleksandr Khinchin, Christian Schad, and Mirza Davud Huseynov. After him are Magda Julin, Ivan Papanin, Olive Thomas, Robert Menzies, Jean Rostand, and Tibor Déry. Among people deceased in 1984, Giuseppe Tucci ranks 128. Before him are Louis Lansana Beavogui, Viktor Chukarin, J. B. Priestley, Carl Joachim Friedrich, Manuel Alonso Areizaga, and Valery Voronin. After him are K. D. Jadhav, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Flora Robson, Gaëtan Dugas, Lillian Hellman, and Arvīds Jansons.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giuseppe Tucci ranks 3,009 out of 5,161. Before him are Salamone Rossi (1570), Domenico Tintoretto (1560), Cristoforo Madruzzo (1512), Giottino (1324), Ciro Ferrara (1967), and Antonio Cassano (1982). After him are Fiorenzo Magni (1920), Vittorio Adorni (1937), Francesco Bartolozzi (1725), Sempronia (-200), Attilio Pavesi (1910), and Umberto Maglioli (1928).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Italy

Among archaeologists born in Italy, Giuseppe Tucci ranks 4. Before him are Ciriaco de' Pizzicolli (1391), Giuseppe Fiorelli (1823), and Paul-Émile Botta (1802). After him are Florentino Ameghino (1853), and Massimo Pallottino (1909).

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