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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 95,246 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Gustaf Kossinna is the 48th most popular archaeologist (down from 40th in 2019), the 930th most popular biography from Russia (down from 897th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Gustaf Kossinna ranks 48 out of 104Before him are Meritites I, Hat Hor, Paul-Émile Botta, James Henry Breasted, Alan Gardiner, and Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola. After him are Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, Isdal Woman, Colin Renfrew, Hormuzd Rassam, and Peter Wilhelm Lund.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Gustaf Kossinna ranks 66Before him are John L. Sullivan, Francis Preserved Leavenworth, P. J. Kennedy, John A. Hobson, Hans Rott, and E. Nesbit. After him are Mélanie Bonis, Medardo Rosso, Vincas Kudirka, Petar Bojović, Jenő Hubay, and Anthon van Rappard. Among people deceased in 1931, Gustaf Kossinna ranks 63Before him are William Bates, Lujo Brentano, Nicolae Paulescu, Samad bey Mehmandarov, Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia, and Felix Blumenfeld. After him are Osachi Hamaguchi, Xu Zhimo, Jean-Louis Forain, Arnold Bennett, Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa, and Rachel Bluwstein.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Gustaf Kossinna ranks 930 out of 3,262Before him are Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1838), Duke Peter of Oldenburg (1812), Sergei Salnikov (1925), Aleksandra Pakhmutova (1929), Gevork Vartanian (1924), and Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow (1910). After him are Alfred Clebsch (1833), Anastasiya Vertinskaya (1944), Tini Beg (1341), Mikhail Katukov (1900), Duchess Sophie of Prussia (1582), and Irina Shayk (1986).

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Russia

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