1818 - 1881
Lewis Henry Morgan (November 21, 1818 – December 17, 1881) was a pioneering American anthropologist and social theorist who worked as a railroad lawyer. He is best known for his work on kinship and social structure, his theories of social evolution, and his ethnography of the Iroquois. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lewis H. Morgan has received more than 401,112 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Lewis H. Morgan is the 4th most popular anthropologist (up from 8th in 2019), the 328th most popular biography from United States (up from 557th in 2019) and the most popular American Anthropologist.
Lewis H. Morgan is most famous for his book Ancient Society. The book was published in 1877 and is a study of the development of human society from savagery to civilization.
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Among anthropologists, Lewis H. Morgan ranks 4 out of 69. Before him are Bronisław Malinowski, Edward Burnett Tylor, and James George Frazer. After him are Jane Goodall, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Franz Boas, Paul Broca, Clifford Geertz, Gregory Bateson, and Eugène Dubois.
1884 - 1942
HPI: 71.55
Rank: 1
1832 - 1917
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 2
1854 - 1941
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 3
1818 - 1881
HPI: 68.86
Rank: 4
1934 - Present
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 5
1901 - 1978
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 6
1887 - 1948
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 7
1858 - 1942
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 8
1824 - 1880
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 9
1926 - 2006
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 10
1904 - 1980
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 11
1858 - 1940
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1818, Lewis H. Morgan ranks 10. Before him are Emily Brontë, Ignaz Semmelweis, Ivan Turgenev, Christian IX of Denmark, Charles Gounod, and Jacob Burckhardt. After him are Marius Petipa, Rudolf von Jhering, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Adolf Anderssen, Emperor Norton, and Charles III, Prince of Monaco. Among people deceased in 1881, Lewis H. Morgan ranks 6. Before him are Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexander II of Russia, Modest Mussorgsky, Billy the Kid, and Benjamin Disraeli. After him are James A. Garfield, Thomas Carlyle, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Auguste Mariette, and Jenny von Westphalen.
1818 - 1848
HPI: 74.27
Rank: 4
1818 - 1865
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 5
1818 - 1883
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 6
1818 - 1906
HPI: 72.25
Rank: 7
1818 - 1893
HPI: 72.23
Rank: 8
1818 - 1897
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 9
1818 - 1881
HPI: 68.86
Rank: 10
1818 - 1910
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 11
1818 - 1892
HPI: 65.00
Rank: 12
1818 - 1893
HPI: 63.86
Rank: 13
1818 - 1879
HPI: 63.01
Rank: 14
1818 - 1880
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 15
1818 - 1889
HPI: 62.51
Rank: 16
1821 - 1881
HPI: 88.66
Rank: 1
1818 - 1881
HPI: 76.40
Rank: 2
1839 - 1881
HPI: 76.35
Rank: 3
1859 - 1881
HPI: 73.69
Rank: 4
1804 - 1881
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 5
1818 - 1881
HPI: 68.86
Rank: 6
1831 - 1881
HPI: 68.53
Rank: 7
1795 - 1881
HPI: 66.04
Rank: 8
1804 - 1881
HPI: 65.79
Rank: 9
1805 - 1881
HPI: 65.25
Rank: 10
1821 - 1881
HPI: 62.95
Rank: 11
1814 - 1881
HPI: 62.57
Rank: 12
Among people born in United States, Lewis H. Morgan ranks 328 out of 18,182. Before him are James Buchanan (1791), Carl David Anderson (1905), O. Henry (1862), Barry Barish (1936), O. J. Simpson (1947), and Anton LaVey (1930). After him are Clinton Davisson (1881), Michael Porter (1947), Man Ray (1890), Herman Hollerith (1860), Sandra Bullock (1964), and John Bardeen (1908).
1791 - 1868
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 322
1905 - 1991
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 323
1862 - 1910
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 324
1936 - Present
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 325
1947 - Present
HPI: 68.87
Rank: 326
1930 - 1997
HPI: 68.87
Rank: 327
1818 - 1881
HPI: 68.86
Rank: 328
1881 - 1958
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 329
1947 - Present
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 330
1890 - 1976
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 331
1860 - 1929
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 332
1964 - Present
HPI: 68.80
Rank: 333
1908 - 1991
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 334
Among anthropologists born in United States, Lewis H. Morgan ranks 1. After him are Margaret Mead (1901), Ruth Benedict (1887), Clifford Geertz (1926), A. L. Kroeber (1876), Edward T. Hall (1914), Marvin Harris (1927), Leslie White (1900), Marshall Sahlins (1930), Ann Dunham (1942), Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857), and John Lloyd Stephens (1805).
1818 - 1881
HPI: 68.86
Rank: 1
1901 - 1978
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 2
1887 - 1948
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 3
1926 - 2006
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 4
1876 - 1960
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 5
1914 - 2009
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 6
1927 - 2001
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 7
1900 - 1971
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 8
1930 - 2021
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 9
1942 - 1995
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 10
1857 - 1935
HPI: 52.88
Rank: 11
1805 - 1852
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 12