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ARCHAEOLOGIST

Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae

1821 - 1885

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Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae (14 March 1821 – 15 August 1885) was a Danish archaeologist, historian and politician, who was the second director of the National Museum of Denmark (1865–1874). He played a key role in the foundation of scientific archaeology. Worsaae was the first to excavate and use stratigraphy to prove C. J. Thomsen's sequence of the Three-age system: Stone, Bronze, Iron. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae has received more than 46,446 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae is the 60th most popular archaeologist, the 324th most popular biography from Denmark and the 3rd most popular Danish Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae ranks 60 out of 104. Before him are Peter Wilhelm Lund, Spyridon Marinatos, Giuseppe Fiorelli, Johan Gunnar Andersson, Halet Çambel, and Robert Broom. After him are Margaret Murray, Edward Robinson, Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, William F. Albright, Victor Loret, and Heinrich Karl Brugsch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae ranks 61. Before him are Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, Princess Catherine of Württemberg, Prince Adolf of Auersperg, Nikolai Zaremba, Josip Runjanin, and Georgi Sava Rakovski. After him are James Longstreet, Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, Mikhail Petrashevsky, Friedrich Kiel, Leopold III, Prince of Lippe, and Arthur Saint-Léon. Among people deceased in 1885, Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae ranks 48. Before him are Thomas Andrews, Nicolás Avellaneda, Henri Milne-Edwards, Schuyler Colfax, Prince Adolf of Auersperg, and Jules Vallès. After him are Henri Dupuy de Lôme, Prince August of Württemberg, Friedrich Kiel, Ernst Falkbeer, Irvin McDowell, and Justo Rufino Barrios.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae ranks 324 out of 893. Before him are Johannes Ewald (1743), Per Nørgård (1932), Emil Aarestrup (1800), Eugen Schmidt (1862), Henning Carlsen (1927), and Jakob Nielsen (1957). After him are Sophus Nielsen (1888), Georg Mohr (1640), Conrad Malte-Brun (1775), Frank Arnesen (1956), Julius Petersen (1839), and August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1612).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Denmark

Among archaeologists born in Denmark, Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae ranks 3. Before him are Christian Jürgensen Thomsen (1788) and Peter Wilhelm Lund (1801).

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