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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 52,869 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Hugo Winckler is the 78th most popular archaeologist (down from 71st in 2019), the 3,713th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,566th in 2019) and the 14th most popular German Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Hugo Winckler ranks 78 out of 104Before him are Ernst Herzfeld, Johan David Åkerblad, Donald Johanson, François Bordes, Rudolf Wagner, and André Parrot. After him are Ernesto Schiaparelli, Joseph Orbeli, Israel Finkelstein, Massimo Pallottino, Henri Frankfort, and John Evans.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Hugo Winckler ranks 106Before him are C. Aubrey Smith, Rūdolfs Blaumanis, André Blondel, Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis, Aleksey Krylov, and Aurel Popovici. After him are Aleko Konstantinov, Lyubomir Miletich, Milka Ternina, Arno Holz, Ellen Churchill Semple, and Alfred Perot. Among people deceased in 1913, Hugo Winckler ranks 58Before him are Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino, Léon Teisserenc de Bort, Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo, Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup, Marie Popelin, and Paul Friedrich August Ascherson. After him are Segismundo Moret, Camille Lemonnier, Juhan Liiv, Nicolás de Piérola, Edwin Klebs, and Johannes Linnankoski.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hugo Winckler ranks 3,713 out of 6,142Before him are Robert Habeck (1969), Peter Joseph Lenné (1789), Alexander Zverev (1997), Michael Artin (1934), Georg Adolf Erman (1806), and Johann Georg Christian Lehmann (1792). After him are Friedrich von Ingenohl (1857), Erich Weinert (1890), Christian Rohlfs (1849), Bruno Apitz (1900), Princess Johanna Charlotte of Anhalt-Dessau (1682), and Gustav Mie (1868).

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among archaeologists born in Germany, Hugo Winckler ranks 14Before him are Ernst Curtius (1814), Isdal Woman (1940), Halet Çambel (1916), Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1827), Ernst Herzfeld (1879), and Rudolf Wagner (1805). After him are Johann Andreas Wagner (1797), Klaus Schmidt (1953), and Franz Weidenreich (1873).