ANTHROPOLOGIST

Louis Dumont

1911 - 1998

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Louis Charles Jean Dumont (11 August 1911 – 19 November 1998) was a French anthropologist. Dumont was born in Thessaloniki, in the Salonica Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. He taught at Oxford University during the 1950s, and was then director of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Dumont has received more than 119,026 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Louis Dumont is the 42nd most popular anthropologist (up from 50th in 2019), the 545th most popular biography from Greece (up from 597th in 2019) and the most popular Greek Anthropologist.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Louis Dumont ranks 42 out of 93. Before him are Marcel Griaule, Jean Malaurie, David Graeber, Paolo Mantegazza, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, and Aleš Hrdlička. After him are Georges Vacher de Lapouge, Lubor Niederle, John Lloyd Stephens, Birutė Galdikas, Raymond Firth, and Bill Mollison.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Louis Dumont ranks 152. Before him are Rafael Arnaiz Barón, Ljubiša Broćić, Hans von Ohain, Nello Pagani, Abderrahmane Farès, and José María Arguedas. After him are Arkady Raikin, Hume Cronyn, Kukrit Pramoj, Floyd Council, Allan Pettersson, and Aliya bint Ali. Among people deceased in 1998, Louis Dumont ranks 121. Before him are Mancur Olson, Jean Leray, Bahi Ladgham, Hans von Ohain, Theodor Oberländer, and Jerome Robbins. After him are Lia Manoliu, Klaus Tennstedt, John Chadwick, Samuel Eilenberg, Keisuke Kinoshita, and Qian Zhongshu.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Louis Dumont ranks 545 out of 1,024. Before him are Laomedon of Mytilene (-400), Anyte of Tegea (-290), Theodor Kallifatides (1938), Antigone of Epirus (-350), Charilaos Vasilakos (1877), and Krste Misirkov (1874). After him are Alexandros Papadiamantis (1851), Georgios Rallis (1918), Eudamidas III (-300), Georgios Zoitakis (1910), Euphranor (-301), and Nephon II of Constantinople (1450).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Greece

Among anthropologists born in Greece, Louis Dumont ranks 1. 

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