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ARCHAEOLOGIST

Isdal Woman

1940 - 1970

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The Isdal Woman (Norwegian: Isdalskvinnen, 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 1,846,347 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Isdal Woman is the 51st most popular archaeologist (up from 299th in 2019), the 2,917th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,021st in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Archaeologist.

Memorability Metrics

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  • 52.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Isdal Woman ranks 51 out of 104. Before her are James Henry Breasted, Alan Gardiner, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, Gustaf Kossinna, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, and Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet. After her are Colin Renfrew, Hormuzd Rassam, Peter Wilhelm Lund, Spyridon Marinatos, Giuseppe Fiorelli, and Johan Gunnar Andersson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Isdal Woman ranks 210. Before her are Don Nelson, Sharad Pawar, Anatoliy Bondarchuk, Jana Brejchová, Christoph Blocher, and Pedro Armendáriz Jr.. After her are Jair da Costa, Thelma Schoonmaker, Raoni Metuktire, Jon Elster, Natalia Makarova, and David Koch. Among people deceased in 1970, Isdal Woman ranks 122. Before her are Hugh Dowding, Terry Sawchuk, René Schneider, Paul Schmidt, Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg, and Ernst May. After her are Leah Goldberg, Aimo Lahti, Gyula Cseszneky, Félix Gaillard, Heino Eller, and Pierre Veyron.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Isdal Woman ranks 2,917 out of 6,142. Before her are Paul Levi (1883), Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729), Joachim Lemelsen (1888), Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917), Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809), and Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1910). After her are Engelbert II of Berg (1185), Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (1819), Hermann Zapf (1918), Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern (1868), Max Dehn (1878), and Carl Peters (1856).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among archaeologists born in Germany, Isdal Woman ranks 9. Before her are Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752), Karl Richard Lepsius (1810), Leo Frobenius (1873), Ami Boué (1794), Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1853), and Ernst Curtius (1814). After her are Halet Çambel (1916), Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1827), Ernst Herzfeld (1879), Rudolf Wagner (1805), Hugo Winckler (1863), and Johann Andreas Wagner (1797).

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