ARCHAEOLOGIST

Gustaf Kossinna

1858 - 1931

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Gustaf Kossinna (28 September 1858 – 20 December 1931) was a German philologist and archaeologist who was Professor of German Archaeology at the University of Berlin. Along with Carl Schuchhardt he was the most influential German prehistorian of his day, and was creator of the techniques of settlement archaeology (German: Siedlungsarchaeologie). His nationalistic theories about the origins of the Germanic peoples and Indo-Europeans influenced aspects of National Socialist ideology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gustaf Kossinna has received more than 103,844 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Gustaf Kossinna is the 39th most popular archaeologist (up from 48th in 2019), the 745th most popular biography from Russia (up from 928th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Gustaf Kossinna ranks 39 out of 151. Before him are Wilhelm Dörpfeld, Hat Hor, André Leroi-Gourhan, George Smith, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, and John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. After him are Meritites I, Neferkare Tereru, Leonard Woolley, Giuseppe Fiorelli, Ernst Curtius, and Henri Breuil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Gustaf Kossinna ranks 59. Before him are Roland Bonaparte, Ethel Smyth, Pandita Ramabai, John L. Sullivan, Joséphin Péladan, and William Henry Pickering. After him are Ye Wanyong, Maximilien Luce, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Archibald Gracie IV, Jenő Hubay, and Francis Preserved Leavenworth. Among people deceased in 1931, Gustaf Kossinna ranks 48. Before him are Santiago Rusiñol, Eugene de Blaas, Motilal Nehru, Alexandre Darracq, Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, and Nellie Melba. After him are Rachel Bluwstein, Shibusawa Eiichi, Lujo Brentano, Salvatore Maranzano, Samad bey Mehmandarov, and Felix Blumenfeld.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Gustaf Kossinna ranks 745 out of 3,761. Before him are Gabdulkhay Akhatov (1927), Boris Gromov (1943), Nikolai Rezanov (1764), Alexander Yakovlev (1923), Nikolai Amosov (1913), and Evgeny Pashukanis (1891). After him are Viktor Tikhonov (1930), Nikolay Dobrolyubov (1836), Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (1842), Afanasy Fet (1820), Vasily Aksyonov (1932), and Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov (1777).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Russia

Among archaeologists born in Russia, Gustaf Kossinna ranks 1. After him are Tatiana Proskouriakoff (1909), Boris Piotrovsky (1908), and Alexey Okladnikov (1908).

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