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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 314,292 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. James Prinsep is the 96th most popular archaeologist, the 3,426th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 19th most popular British Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, James Prinsep ranks 96 out of 104. Before him are Tatiana Proskouriakoff, Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger, Zakaria Goneim, Dorothea Bate, Dorothy Garrod, and Sylvanus Morley. After him are James Mellaart, Lewis Binford, Michael D. Coe, Carl Blegen, Ekrem Akurgal, and John O. Westwood.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, James Prinsep ranks 45. Before him are Ferdinand Reich, Nathaniel Palmer, Fyodor Bruni, Edward Belcher, Jean Baptiste Boisduval, and Heinrich von Kittlitz. After him are Heinrich von Gagern, David Don, František Čelakovský, William Rutter Dawes, Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, and George Arnott Walker-Arnott. Among people deceased in 1840, James Prinsep ranks 40. Before him are Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Franz Meyen, Joseph Johann von Littrow, Paul Rudolf von Bilguer, and Karl Leberecht Immermann. After him are José Antonio Pavón Jiménez, John Abbot, John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, John Adair, and Felix Grundy.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Prinsep ranks 3,426 out of 7,765. Before him are Lisa Stansfield (1966), Joseph Noel Paton (1821), Frances Yates (1899), John Mayhew (1947), Sam Riley (1980), and Roy Thomas Baker (1946). After him are Brian Lumley (1937), Al Pease (1921), Frederick Sandys (1829), Lucy Walter (1630), Oliver Sykes (1986), and Spencer Davis (1939).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, James Prinsep ranks 19. Before him are E. A. Wallis Budge (1857), John Evans (1823), Charles Dawson (1864), John Marshall (1876), Dorothea Bate (1878), and Dorothy Garrod (1892). After him are James Mellaart (1925), John O. Westwood (1805), James Quibell (1867), John M. Allegro (1923), Meave Leakey (1942), and Colin Groves (1942).

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