ARCHAEOLOGIST

Karl Richard Lepsius

1810 - 1884

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Karl Richard Lepsius (Latin: Carolus Richardius Lepsius) (23 December 1810 – 10 July 1884) was a Prussian Egyptologist, linguist and modern archaeologist. He is widely known for his opus magnum Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Richard Lepsius has received more than 139,153 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Karl Richard Lepsius is the 18th most popular archaeologist (up from 20th in 2019), the 1,211th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,272nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Karl Richard Lepsius ranks 18 out of 151. Before him are Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, V. Gordon Childe, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Ciriaco de' Pizzicolli, George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, and Oscar Montelius. After him are Louis Leakey, Austen Henry Layard, Alcide d'Orbigny, Khaemweset, George Gaylord Simpson, and Flinders Petrie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Karl Richard Lepsius ranks 21. Before him are Princess Marianne of the Netherlands, Auguste, Duke of Leuchtenberg, Fanny Elssler, Hermann Heinrich Gossen, Francesco Maria Piave, and Elizabeth Gaskell. After him are Henri Victor Regnault, Asa Gray, Ferenc Erkel, Constant Troyon, Francisco Serrano, 1st Duke of la Torre, and Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie. Among people deceased in 1884, Karl Richard Lepsius ranks 15. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, Hermann Kolbe, Fanny Elssler, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, and Alfred Brehm. After him are Allan Pinkerton, Hans Makart, Alexander, Prince of Orange, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal, and Paul Abadie.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Richard Lepsius ranks 1,211 out of 7,253. Before him are Reinhard Genzel (1952), Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Electress of Brandenburg (1597), Douglas Sirk (1897), Theodor Storm (1817), Wilhelm Stuckart (1902), and Hartmut Michel (1948). After him are Henry IV, Duke of Saxony (1473), Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen (1671), Clemens August Graf von Galen (1878), Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (1862), Johann Peter Eckermann (1792), and Kurt Gerstein (1905).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among archaeologists born in Germany, Karl Richard Lepsius ranks 4. Before him are Heinrich Schliemann (1822), Theodor Mommsen (1817), and Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752). After him are 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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