ARCHAEOLOGIST

Henri Breuil

1877 - 1961

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Henri Édouard Prosper Breuil (28 February 1877 – 14 August 1961), often referred to as Abbé Breuil (French pronunciation: [abe bʁœj]), was a French Catholic priest, archaeologist, anthropologist, ethnologist and geologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Breuil has received more than 106,774 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Henri Breuil is the 45th most popular archaeologist (down from 39th in 2019), the 2,460th most popular biography from France (down from 2,227th in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Archaeologist.

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  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Henri Breuil ranks 45 out of 151. Before him are Gustaf Kossinna, Meritites I, Neferkare Tereru, Leonard Woolley, Giuseppe Fiorelli, and Ernst Curtius. After him are Margaret Murray, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, James Henry Breasted, Ami Boué, Paul-Émile Botta, and Max Mallowan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Henri Breuil ranks 63. Before him are Édouard Herzen, Max Factor, Oscar Milosz, Frank Marshall, Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, and Wilhelm Filchner. After him are Rosika Schwimmer, Erik Scavenius, Ivy Lee, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Renée Vivien, and Sergei Bortkiewicz. Among people deceased in 1961, Henri Breuil ranks 51. Before him are Clark Ashton Smith, Max Simon, Shigeko Higashikuni, Valentin Bondarenko, Milan Stojadinović, and Anna May Wong. After him are Robert Garrett, Maya Deren, Paul Ramadier, Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi, Grandma Moses, and Thomas Beecham.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Breuil ranks 2,460 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours (1624), Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall (1284), Henri Eberhardt (1913), Yolanda of Courtenay (1197), Madeleine Vionnet (1876), and Zygmunt Krasiński (1812). After him are Ezzo, Count Palatine of Lotharingia (955), Quatremère de Quincy (1755), François Devienne (1759), Alexandre Exquemelin (1646), Henri Wallon (1879), and Nicole Fontaine (1942).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In France

Among archaeologists born in France, Henri Breuil ranks 7. Before him are Jean-François Champollion (1790), Austen Henry Layard (1817), Alcide d'Orbigny (1802), Paul Pelliot (1878), André Leroi-Gourhan (1911), and Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788). After him are Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet (1821), Victor Loret (1859), Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac (1778), André Parrot (1901), Pierre Montet (1885), and François Bordes (1919).

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