ARCHAEOLOGIST

Hugo Winckler

1863 - 1913

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Hugo Winckler (4 July 1863 – 19 April 1913) was a German archaeologist and historian who uncovered the capital of the Hittite Empire (Hattusa) at Boğazkale, Turkey. A student of the languages of the ancient Middle East, he wrote extensively on Assyrian cuneiform and the Old Testament, compiled a history of Babylonia and Assyria that was published in 1891, and translated both the Code of Hammurabi and the Amarna letters. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hugo Winckler has received more than 57,751 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Hugo Winckler is the 105th most popular archaeologist (down from 78th in 2019), the 4,619th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,704th in 2019) and the 16th most popular German Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Hugo Winckler ranks 105 out of 151. Before him are E. A. Wallis Budge, Henri Frankfort, Blaga Aleksova, Paul Rivet, James Prinsep, and Désiré Charnay. After him are Colin Groves, Leon Kozłowski, Rudolf Wagner, Lewis Binford, Anne Stine Ingstad, and Mortimer Wheeler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Hugo Winckler ranks 142. Before him are Richard Wettstein, Samuel P. Bush, Sylvain Lévi, Ekvtime Takaishvili, Blanche Bingley, and W. W. Jacobs. After him are Frederic G. Kenyon, Sergey Oldenburg, Mary Whiton Calkins, William Henry Young, Eduard David, and Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey. Among people deceased in 1913, Hugo Winckler ranks 76. Before him are Camille Lemonnier, Nicolás de Piérola, Leonid Sobolev, Juhan Liiv, Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, and Adolf Lang. After him are Mathilde Marchesi, Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels, Miroslav Kraljević, Paul de Smet de Naeyer, Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie, and Gregorio María Aguirre y García.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hugo Winckler ranks 4,619 out of 7,253. Before him are Rudolf Scharping (1947), Otto Modersohn (1865), Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927), Jacob Volhard (1834), Ditlev Blunck (1798), and Dietrich Kraiss (1889). After him are Jordanus de Nemore (null), Maria Katharina Kasper (1820), Birgit Prinz (1977), Mathilde Marchesi (1821), Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer (1801), and Julius Friedrich Cohnheim (1839).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among archaeologists born in Germany, Hugo Winckler ranks 16. Before him are Max von Oppenheim (1860), Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1827), Adolf Furtwängler (1853), Halet Çambel (1916), Johann Andreas Wagner (1797), and Ernst Herzfeld (1879). After him are Rudolf Wagner (1805), Franz Weidenreich (1873), and Klaus Schmidt (1953).

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