ARCHAEOLOGIST

James Henry Breasted

1865 - 1935

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James Henry Breasted (; August 27, 1865 – December 2, 1935) was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and historian. After completing his PhD at the University of Berlin in 1894 – the first American to obtain a doctorate in Egyptology – he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. In 1901 he became director of the Haskell Oriental Museum at the university, where he continued to concentrate on Egypt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Henry Breasted has received more than 187,222 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). James Henry Breasted is the 48th most popular archaeologist (down from 45th in 2019), the 2,939th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,966th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Archaeologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year James Henry Breasted has had the most page views in the with 22,952 views, followed by Arabic (5,443), and Russian (3,077). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (153.10%), Galician (98.31%), and Swedish (81.51%)

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, James Henry Breasted ranks 48 out of 151. Before him are Leonard Woolley, Giuseppe Fiorelli, Ernst Curtius, Henri Breuil, Margaret Murray, and Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola. After him are Ami Boué, Paul-Émile Botta, Max Mallowan, Colin Renfrew, Hormuzd Rassam, and Johan Gunnar Andersson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, James Henry Breasted ranks 74. Before him are Prince Kan'in Kotohito, John Stanley Plaskett, Isaac Israëls, Henri Desgrange, J. Walter Christie, and Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg. After him are Erich von Drygalski, Eduardo di Capua, Archibald Leitch, Heinrich Rubens, Eugene Botkin, and Pēteris Stučka. Among people deceased in 1935, James Henry Breasted ranks 60. Before him are Alexander von Linsingen, Meletius IV of Constantinople, Louis de Beaufront, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ruan Lingyu, and Pavlos Kountouriotis. After him are Aleksandër Moisiu, Otto Schott, Princess Maria Theresa of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, René Crevel, Zequinha de Abreu, and Henry Fairfield Osborn.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Henry Breasted ranks 2,939 out of 20,380. Before him are Bobby Riggs (1918), King Oliver (1881), Bobby Darin (1936), Edward Kasner (1878), Christa McAuliffe (1948), and Wendy Carlos (1939). After him are Raymond Damadian (1936), Duke Kahanamoku (1890), Ace Frehley (1951), Robert Hanssen (1944), Jeffrey Tambor (1944), and Martha Scott (1912).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United States

Among archaeologists born in United States, James Henry Breasted ranks 5. Before him are Edward Drinker Cope (1840), George Gaylord Simpson (1902), Othniel Charles Marsh (1831), and Robert Ballard (1942). After him are Charles W. Gilmore (1874), Sylvanus Morley (1883), J. P. Mallory (1945), Donald Johanson (1943), Edward Robinson (1794), Lewis Binford (1932), and Robert T. Bakker (1945).

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