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ARCHAEOLOGIST

Leo Frobenius

1873 - 1938

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Leo Viktor Frobenius (29 June 1873 – 9 August 1938) was a German self-taught ethnologist and archaeologist and a major figure in German ethnography. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leo Frobenius has received more than 153,131 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Leo Frobenius is the 24th most popular archaeologist (down from 22nd in 2019), the 1,500th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,475th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Archaeologist.

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  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Leo Frobenius ranks 24 out of 104. Before him are Aurel Stein, Flinders Petrie, Karl Richard Lepsius, Louis Leakey, Austen Henry Layard, and Khaemweset. After him are Bogdan Filov, Alcide d'Orbigny, Paul Pelliot, Leonard Woolley, Othniel Charles Marsh, and Robert Ballard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Leo Frobenius ranks 51. Before him are Radoje Domanović, Fritz Thyssen, Robert Wiene, Eliel Saarinen, Hugo Simberg, and Arnold van Gennep. After him are Édouard Claparède, Mehmet Akif Ersoy, Hans Berger, Max Adler, Sidney Reilly, and Antonie Pannekoek. Among people deceased in 1938, Leo Frobenius ranks 54. Before him are Nikolay Krestinsky, Aleksandr Kuprin, Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark, Robert Wiene, Alfonsina Storni, and Axel Paulsen. After him are César Vallejo, Ludwig Borchardt, Yevhen Konovalets, Gillis Grafström, Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, and Leopold Godowsky.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Leo Frobenius ranks 1,500 out of 6,142. Before him are Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1808), Peter von Cornelius (1784), Marita Koch (1957), Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1783), Conrad, Margrave of Meissen (1097), and August Sander (1876). After him are Heiner Müller (1929), Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1591), Christian Morgenstern (1871), Rudi Dutschke (1940), Heinrich Füger (1751), and Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among archaeologists born in Germany, Leo Frobenius ranks 5. Before him are Heinrich Schliemann (1822), Theodor Mommsen (1817), Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752), and Karl Richard Lepsius (1810). After him are Ami Boué (1794), Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1853), Ernst Curtius (1814), Isdal Woman (1940), Halet Çambel (1916), Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1827), and Ernst Herzfeld (1879).

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