ARCHAEOLOGIST

Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes

1788 - 1868

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Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (French pronunciation: [ʒak buʃe d(ə) kʁɛvkœʁ də pɛʁt]; 10 September 1788 – 5 August 1868), sometimes referred to as Boucher de Perthes (British English: BOO-shay də PAIRT), was a French archaeologist and antiquary notable for his discovery, in about 1830, of flint tools in the gravels of the Somme valley. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes has received more than 56,814 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes is the 37th most popular archaeologist (up from 49th in 2019), the 2,246th most popular biography from France (up from 2,780th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes ranks 37 out of 151. Before him are Isdal Woman, Robert Ballard, Wilhelm Dörpfeld, Hat Hor, André Leroi-Gourhan, and George Smith. After him are John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, Gustaf Kossinna, Meritites I, Neferkare Tereru, Leonard Woolley, and Giuseppe Fiorelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1788, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes ranks 24. Before him are Johan Christian Dahl, Mikhail Lazarev, Leopold Gmelin, David d'Angers, Friedrich Rückert, and Geert Adriaans Boomgaard. After him are Carl Reichenbach, Pierre Joseph Pelletier, Felice Romani, Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, Carl Sigismund Kunth, and Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi. Among people deceased in 1868, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes ranks 25. Before him are Christian Friedrich Schönbein, Tewodros II, François-Édouard Picot, Bhanubhakta Acharya, Carlo Matteucci, and Rasoherina. After him are Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Ferenc Gyulay, Nakano Takeko, Julius Plücker, Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, and Venancio Flores.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes ranks 2,246 out of 6,770. Before him are Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823), Jacques Amyot (1513), Joseph Monier (1823), René Fonck (1894), Thierry Sabine (1949), and William IV, Duke of Aquitaine (935). After him are Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786), Beatrice of Lorraine (1017), Benedict Joseph Labre (1748), Eugène Marin Labiche (1815), Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignano (1628), and Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis (1746).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In France

Among archaeologists born in France, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes ranks 6. Before him are Jean-François Champollion (1790), Austen Henry Layard (1817), Alcide d'Orbigny (1802), Paul Pelliot (1878), and André Leroi-Gourhan (1911). After him are Henri Breuil (1877), Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet (1821), Victor Loret (1859), Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac (1778), André Parrot (1901), and Pierre Montet (1885).

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