ARCHAEOLOGIST

Karel Absolon

1877 - 1960

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Karel Absolon (16 June 1877 – 6 October 1960) was a Czech archaeologist, geographer, paleontologist, and speleologist. He was born in Boskovice. Absolon was the grandchild of paleontologist Jindřich Wankel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karel Absolon has received more than 26,943 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Karel Absolon is the 122nd most popular archaeologist (down from 112th in 2019), the 674th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 608th in 2019) and the most popular Czech Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Karel Absolon ranks 122 out of 151. Before him are Robert T. Bakker, Zakaria Goneim, Grafton Elliot Smith, Klaus Schmidt, Carl Blegen, and Stith Thompson. After him are Julio C. Tello, John Beazley, Dorothea Bate, Robert John Braidwood, Boris Piotrovsky, and James Quibell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Karel Absolon ranks 165. Before him are Katherine Sophie Dreier, Marsden Hartley, Joseph Stella, Bill Robinson, Leopold Skulski, and Elena Guro. After him are Ervin Mészáros, Johannes Schmidt, Malcolm Whitman, Félix Paiva, Henri Hazebrouck, and Léon Sée. Among people deceased in 1960, Karel Absolon ranks 190. Before him are José Serrato, Luiz Vinhaes, Carlos Mendieta, Juan Jover, Dimitrana Ivanova, and Algisto Lorenzato. After him are Henri De Deken, I. I. Chundrigar, Francis Parker Yockey, Gregory Ratoff, Curt Goetz, and Bodil Katharine Biørn.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Karel Absolon ranks 674 out of 1,200. Before him are Břetislav Pojar (1923), Oldřich Lajsek (1925), Michal Bílek (1965), Wenzel Müller (1767), Karolína Kurková (1984), and Lubomir Kavalek (1943). After him are František Křižík (1847), Edmund Reitter (1845), Josef Holeček (1921), Karel Koželuh (1895), Alena Vrzáňová (1931), and Vladimír Zábrodský (1923).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Czechia

Among archaeologists born in Czechia, Karel Absolon ranks 1. After him are Miroslav Verner (1941).

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