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ARCHAEOLOGIST

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 168,952 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Hormuzd Rassam is the 53rd most popular archaeologist (down from 50th in 2019), the 240th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 236th in 2019) and the most popular Iraqi Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Hormuzd Rassam ranks 53 out of 104Before him are Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, Gustaf Kossinna, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, Isdal Woman, and Colin Renfrew. After him are Peter Wilhelm Lund, Spyridon Marinatos, Giuseppe Fiorelli, Johan Gunnar Andersson, Halet Çambel, and Robert Broom.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, Hormuzd Rassam ranks 30Before him are Cetshwayo kaMpande, Henri Mouhot, Princess Alexandra of Bavaria, Spotted Elk, Giuseppe Zanardelli, and Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. After him are Giovanni Battista Donati, William Waddington, Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Karl Gegenbaur, and Charles Barbier de Meynard. Among people deceased in 1910, Hormuzd Rassam ranks 54Before him are Wilhelm Raabe, Jorge Chávez, Friedrich Kohlrausch, Kálmán Mikszáth, Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, and Reginald Doherty. After him are Paolo Mantegazza, Gustav Adolf von Götzen, Julius Petersen, Edouard Van Beneden, William Graham Sumner, and Vera Komissarzhevskaya.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Hormuzd Rassam ranks 240 out of 338Before him are Mustafa Al-Kadhimi (1967), Shamshi-Adad IV (-1100), Al-Asmaʿi (740), Tariq al-Hashimi (1942), Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi (980), and Gungunum (-2000). After him are Ashur-bel-kala (-1200), Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi (1976), Muqtada al-Sadr (1974), Abu Sulayman Sijistani (932), Kadashman-Enlil I (-1400), and Nazik Al-Malaika (1923).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Iraq

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