ANTHROPOLOGIST

Johann Carl Fuhlrott

1803 - 1877

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Johann Carl Fuhlrott (31 December 1803, Leinefelde, Germany – 17 October 1877, Wuppertal) was an early German paleoanthropologist. He is famous for recognizing the significance of the bones of Neanderthal 1, a Neanderthal specimen discovered by German laborers who were digging for limestone in Neander valley (Neanderthal in German) in August 1856. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Carl Fuhlrott has received more than 0 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Carl Fuhlrott is the 63rd most popular anthropologist (down from 60th in 2019), the 4,390th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,833rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Johann Carl Fuhlrott ranks 63 out of 93. Before him are Edmund Leach, Fiona Graham, Melville J. Herskovits, Georges Balandier, Jack Goody, and Arjun Appadurai. After him are Philippe Descola, Max Gluckman, George Murdock, Gayle Rubin, Madison Grant, and Michael Harner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Johann Carl Fuhlrott ranks 59. Before him are Caroline Unger, Martinus Rørbye, Dimitrios Voulgaris, Miles Joseph Berkeley, William Thoms, and Black Kettle. After him are Gustav von Alvensleben, Sarah Childress Polk, Albert Küchler, Johann Jakob Kaup, José María Heredia y Heredia, and Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen. Among people deceased in 1877, Johann Carl Fuhlrott ranks 55. Before him are Georg Adolf Erman, Janko Matúška, Alexander Bain, Julius Rietz, Robert Swinhoe, and Juan Bautista Gill. After him are Alexander Brullov, Ramón Cabrera, 1st Duke of Maestrazgo, Rómulo Díaz de la Vega, Karel Sabina, Edward Belcher, and Federico Errázuriz Zañartu.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Carl Fuhlrott ranks 4,390 out of 7,253. Before him are Olaf Thon (1966), Ralph Siegel (1945), Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (1798), Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (1885), Ludwig Lachmann (1906), and Marianne Hoppe (1909). After him are Heinrich von Sybel (1817), Sonja Graf (1908), Thomas Quasthoff (1959), Helmut Käutner (1908), Gustav von Alvensleben (1803), and August Wilhelm Iffland (1759).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Germany

Among anthropologists born in Germany, Johann Carl Fuhlrott ranks 6. Before him are Franz Boas (1858), Fredrik Barth (1928), Wilhelm Schmidt (1868), Jean Malaurie (1922), and Birutė Galdikas (1946). After him are Adolf Bernhard Meyer (1840).

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