ARCHAEOLOGIST

Isdal Woman

1940 - 1970

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The Isdal Woman (Norwegian: Isdalskvinna, c. 1930–1945 – November 1970) is a placeholder name given to an unidentified woman who was found dead at Isdalen ("The Ice Valley") in Bergen, Norway, on 29 November 1970. Although police at the time ruled a verdict of likely suicide, the nature of the case encouraged speculation and ongoing investigation in the years since. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Isdal Woman has received more than 1,978,963 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Isdal Woman is the 31st most popular archaeologist (up from 51st in 2019), the 1,951st most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,914th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Archaeologist.

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  • 56.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Isdal Woman ranks 31 out of 151. Before her are Leo Frobenius, Aurel Stein, Bogdan Filov, Paul Pelliot, Yuri Knorozov, and Othniel Charles Marsh. After her are Robert Ballard, Wilhelm Dörpfeld, Hat Hor, André Leroi-Gourhan, George Smith, and Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Isdal Woman ranks 137. Before her are Peter Diamond, Denny Doherty, Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, Taihō Kōki, and Jimmy Greaves. After her are Iva Zanicchi, Petru Lucinschi, Wilma Rudolph, Christoph Eschenbach, Jan Janssen, and Abbas El Fassi. Among people deceased in 1970, Isdal Woman ranks 79. Before her are Bjarni Benediktsson, Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein, Kiyoo Kanda, Polina Zhemchuzhina, Michał Kalecki, and Sheng Shicai. After her are Ludolf von Alvensleben, Lucien Goldmann, Eiji Tsuburaya, George Szell, Friedrich Kellner, and Toshio Iwatani.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Isdal Woman ranks 1,951 out of 7,253. Before her are Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1746), Fritz Fischer (1912), Juliana of Stolberg (1506), Christoph I, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1453), Franzl Lang (1930), and Georg Ebers (1837). After her are Hans Wilsdorf (1881), John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg (1625), Rainer Bonhof (1952), Niko Kovač (1971), Hermann Schlegel (1804), and Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1579).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among archaeologists born in Germany, Isdal Woman ranks 6. Before her are Heinrich Schliemann (1822), Theodor Mommsen (1817), Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752), Karl Richard Lepsius (1810), and Leo Frobenius (1873). After her are Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1853), Ernst Curtius (1814), Ami Boué (1794), Max von Oppenheim (1860), Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1827), and Adolf Furtwängler (1853).

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