ANTHROPOLOGIST

Jean Malaurie

1922 - 2024

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Jean Malaurie (22 December 1922 – 5 February 2024) was a French cultural anthropologist, explorer, geographer, physicist, and writer. He and Kutsikitsoq, an Inuk, were the first two men to reach the North Geomagnetic Pole on 29 May 1951. Malaurie was a director of studies at the School for advanced studies in social sciences (EHESS) and director and founder of the Terre Humaine collection published by Plon in which features his Last Kings of Thule (1955), translated into twenty-three languages and remaining the most widely distributed work on the Inuit. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Malaurie has received more than 50,891 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Malaurie is the 37th most popular anthropologist, the 2,791st most popular biography from Germany and the 4th most popular German Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Jean Malaurie ranks 37 out of 93. Before him are Wilhelm Schmidt, Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Richard Leakey, Franco Basaglia, Henry Fairfield Osborn, and Marcel Griaule. After him are David Graeber, Paolo Mantegazza, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, Aleš Hrdlička, Louis Dumont, and Georges Vacher de Lapouge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Jean Malaurie ranks 177. Before him are Otl Aicher, John Edward Williams, Esther Brand, George Knobel, Raymond Franz, and Hammer DeRoburt. After him are Hilarion Capucci, Michel Henry, Khiuaz Dospanova, Gerda Steinhoff, Eusebio Tejera, and Seymour Martin Lipset. Among people deceased in 2024, Jean Malaurie ranks 171. Before him are M. Emmet Walsh, Michel Jazy, John Barth, Bill Cobbs, Bernard Chiarelli, and Christoph Daum. After him are Silvio Santos, Colin Renfrew, Vernor Vinge, Günter Brus, Humberto Maschio, and Teri Garr.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jean Malaurie ranks 2,791 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1813), Matthias Claudius (1740), Henryk Zygalski (1908), Christoph Daum (1953), Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792), and Petra Kelly (1947). After him are Duchess Charlotte Felicitas of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1671), Ralf Moeller (1959), Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1800), Wilhelm Boger (1906), Johannes Schöner (1477), and Princess Marie of Baden (1782).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Germany

Among anthropologists born in Germany, Jean Malaurie ranks 4. Before him are Franz Boas (1858), Fredrik Barth (1928), and Wilhelm Schmidt (1868). After him are Birutė Galdikas (1946), Johann Carl Fuhlrott (1803), and Adolf Bernhard Meyer (1840).

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