ARCHAEOLOGIST

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach

1752 - 1840

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Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (11 May 1752 – 22 January 1840) was a German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist. He is considered to be a main founder of zoology and anthropology as comparative, scientific disciplines. He has been called the "founder of racial classifications."He was one of the first to explore the study of the human being as an aspect of natural history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach has received more than 750,288 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Johann Friedrich Blumenbach is the 14th most popular archaeologist (up from 16th in 2019), the 881st most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,128th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Archaeologist.

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach is most famous for his work in the field of anthropometry, which is the study of the body and its measurements. He devised a system of measuring the skull and other parts of the body and created a classification system for races.

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Over the past year Johann Friedrich Blumenbach has had the most page views in the with 77,661 views, followed by German (12,453), and Spanish (10,851). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malay (245.14%), Ido (83.53%), and Basque (63.20%)

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach ranks 14 out of 151. Before him are Semerkhet, Zahi Hawass, Nynetjer, Marija Gimbutas, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, and V. Gordon Childe. After him are Ciriaco de' Pizzicolli, George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, Oscar Montelius, Karl Richard Lepsius, Louis Leakey, and Austen Henry Layard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1752, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach ranks 6. Before him are Maria Carolina of Austria, Jeongjo of Joseon, Joseph Marie Jacquard, Muzio Clementi, and Adrien-Marie Legendre. After him are Karl Mack von Leiberich, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, Jacques Roux, Thomas Chatterton, Adolph Freiherr Knigge, and Nguyễn Huệ. Among people deceased in 1840, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach ranks 8. Before him are Caspar David Friedrich, Frederick William III of Prussia, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, Lucien Bonaparte, Emperor Kōkaku, and Siméon Denis Poisson. After him are José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, Jacques MacDonald, Louis de Bonald, Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, and Maria Beatrice of Savoy.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach ranks 881 out of 7,253. Before him are David Fabricius (1564), Gustav Ritter von Kahr (1862), Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden (1728), Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755), William II of Württemberg (1848), and Andrew Wiles (1953). After him are Gotthard Kettler (1517), Eugen Dühring (1833), Johannes Trithemius (1462), Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876), Ernst Heinkel (1888), and Johann Ambrosius Bach (1645).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among archaeologists born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach ranks 3. Before him are Heinrich Schliemann (1822), and Theodor Mommsen (1817). After him are Karl Richard Lepsius (1810), Leo Frobenius (1873), Isdal Woman (1940), Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1853), Ernst Curtius (1814), Ami Boué (1794), Max von Oppenheim (1860), Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1827), and Adolf Furtwängler (1853).

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