ARCHAEOLOGIST

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury

1834 - 1913

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John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (30 April 1834 – 28 May 1913), known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet, from 1865 until 1900, was an English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath. Lubbock worked in his family company as a banker but made significant contributions in archaeology, ethnography, and several branches of biology. He coined the terms "Palaeolithic" and "Neolithic" to denote the Old and New Stone Ages, respectively. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury has received more than 298,671 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury is the 38th most popular archaeologist (down from 36th in 2019), the 1,534th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,505th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Archaeologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury ranks 38 out of 151. Before him are Robert Ballard, Wilhelm Dörpfeld, Hat Hor, André Leroi-Gourhan, George Smith, and Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes. After him are Gustaf Kossinna, Meritites I, Neferkare Tereru, Leonard Woolley, Giuseppe Fiorelli, and Ernst Curtius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury ranks 31. Before him are Gaston Planté, William Chester Minor, Heinrich von Treitschke, Gustav Nachtigal, Viktor Hartmann, and Lev Ivanov. After him are Samuel Pierpont Langley, José Hernández, Hetty Green, Ludovic Halévy, Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, and Archduchess Maria Isabella of Austria. Among people deceased in 1913, John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury ranks 30. Before him are David Popper, Mariano Rampolla, Empress Dowager Longyu, Infanta Antónia of Portugal, Mahmud Shevket Pasha, and Song Jiaoren. After him are Henry Flagler, Carl Hagenbeck, Archduke Rainer Ferdinand of Austria, Louis Paul Cailletet, Ğabdulla Tuqay, and Aurel Vlaicu.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury ranks 1,534 out of 8,785. Before him are Algernon Blackwood (1869), Kay Parker (1944), Louise d'Orléans (1869), Frederick Delius (1862), Beorhtric of Wessex (800), and Christopher Isherwood (1904). After him are Robert Maynard (1684), Greg Lake (1947), Fraser Stoddart (1942), Olaf Stapledon (1886), Ian Kershaw (1943), and Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild (1840).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury ranks 6. Before him are Howard Carter (1874), Arthur Evans (1851), George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866), Flinders Petrie (1853), and George Smith (1840). After him are Leonard Woolley (1880), Max Mallowan (1904), Colin Renfrew (1937), Robert Broom (1866), Alan Gardiner (1879), and Kathleen Kenyon (1906).

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