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Hormuzd Rassam

1826 - 1910

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Hormuzd Rassam (Arabic: هرمز رسام; Syriac: ܗܪܡܙܕ ܪܣܐܡ; 1826 – 16 September 1910) was an Assyriologist and author. He is known for making a number of important archaeological discoveries from 1877 to 1882, including the clay tablets that contained the Epic of Gilgamesh, the world's oldest notable literature. He is widely believed to be the first-known Middle Eastern and Assyrian archaeologist from the Ottoman empire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hormuzd Rassam has received more than 184,622 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Hormuzd Rassam is the 53rd most popular archaeologist, the 245th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 239th in 2019) and the most popular Iraqi Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Hormuzd Rassam ranks 53 out of 151. Before him are Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, James Henry Breasted, Ami Boué, Paul-Émile Botta, Max Mallowan, and Colin Renfrew. After him are Johan Gunnar Andersson, Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, Max von Oppenheim, Heinrich Karl Brugsch, Adolf Furtwängler, and Johan David Åkerblad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, Hormuzd Rassam ranks 30. Before him are Walter Bagehot, Stephen Foster, Giuseppe Zanardelli, Gustave Moynier, William Waddington, and Giovanni Battista Donati. After him are Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Princess Alexandra of Bavaria, Charles Barbier de Meynard, Franz Grashof, Karl Gegenbaur, and Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava. Among people deceased in 1910, Hormuzd Rassam ranks 54. Before him are Gustave Moynier, Wilhelm Raabe, Hugo Erdmann, Winslow Homer, Michele Rua, and Princess Marie of the Netherlands. After him are Emmanuel Frémiet, William Graham Sumner, Paolo Mantegazza, Friedrich Kohlrausch, Constantin Fahlberg, and Jorge Chávez.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Hormuzd Rassam ranks 245 out of 384. Before him are Ashur-nadin-shumi (-800), Al-Samawal al-Maghribi (1130), Muqtada al-Sadr (1974), Nechirvan Barzani (1966), Eriba-Adad I (-1400), and Ashur-dan I (-1300). After him are Arik-den-ili (-1400), Erishum I (-2000), Shu-Sin (null), Nazik Al-Malaika (1923), Ur-Zababa (-2350), and Karim Findi (1946).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Iraq

Among archaeologists born in Iraq, Hormuzd Rassam ranks 1. After him are Akurgal (-2600).

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