ARCHAEOLOGIST

James Prinsep

1799 - 1840

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James Prinsep (20 August 1799 – 22 April 1840) was an English scholar, orientalist and antiquary. He was the founding editor of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and is best remembered for deciphering the Kharosthi and Brahmi scripts of ancient India. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Prinsep has received more than 348,103 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). James Prinsep is the 103rd most popular archaeologist (down from 96th in 2019), the 3,543rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,418th in 2019) and the 20th most popular British Archaeologist.

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, James Prinsep ranks 103 out of 151. Before him are John O. Westwood, James Mellaart, E. A. Wallis Budge, Henri Frankfort, Blaga Aleksova, and Paul Rivet. After him are Désiré Charnay, Hugo Winckler, Colin Groves, Leon Kozłowski, Rudolf Wagner, and Lewis Binford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, James Prinsep ranks 50. Before him are David Don, Fyodor Bruni, Heinrich von Gagern, Amos Bronson Alcott, Frederick Catherwood, and William Rutter Dawes. After him are Edward Belcher, Henry Monnier, Eliza Acton, George Finlay, František Čelakovský, and Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville. Among people deceased in 1840, James Prinsep ranks 43. Before him are Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Anthony Carlisle, Karl Leberecht Immermann, Joseph Johann von Littrow, John Abbot, and Paul Rudolf von Bilguer. After him are José Antonio Pavón Jiménez, John Adair, John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, and Felix Grundy.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Prinsep ranks 3,543 out of 8,785. Before him are Michael Berry (1941), Joe Alwyn (1991), Len Deighton (1929), Giuseppe Wilson (1945), Norman Hunter (1943), and Alan Woods (1944). After him are Samson of Dol (490), John Belchier (1706), Gerald Moore (1899), David Morrissey (1964), Peter Withe (1951), and David Wilkie (1785).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, James Prinsep ranks 20. Before him are Dorothy Garrod (1892), John Evans (1823), John Marshall (1876), John O. Westwood (1805), James Mellaart (1925), and E. A. Wallis Budge (1857). After him are Colin Groves (1942), Mortimer Wheeler (1890), Meave Leakey (1942), John Beazley (1885), Dorothea Bate (1878), and James Quibell (1867).

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