1898 - 1956
Marcel Griaule (16 May 1898 – 23 February 1956) was a French author and anthropologist known for his studies of the Dogon people of West Africa, and for pioneering ethnographic field studies in France. He worked together with Germaine Dieterlen and Jean Rouch on African subjects. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcel Griaule has received more than 89,585 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Marcel Griaule is the 39th most popular anthropologist (down from 33rd in 2019), the 2,890th most popular biography from France (down from 2,590th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Anthropologist.
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Among anthropologists, Marcel Griaule ranks 39 out of 69. Before him are Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Franco Basaglia, Birutė Galdikas, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Bill Mollison, and Fredrik Barth. After him are John Lloyd Stephens, Lubor Niederle, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, Ralph Linton, David Graeber, and Georges Vacher de Lapouge.
1907 - 1970
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 33
1924 - 1980
HPI: 53.33
Rank: 34
1946 - Present
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 35
1857 - 1935
HPI: 52.88
Rank: 36
1928 - 2016
HPI: 52.83
Rank: 37
1928 - 2016
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 38
1898 - 1956
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 39
1805 - 1852
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 40
1865 - 1944
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 41
1755 - 1830
HPI: 51.78
Rank: 42
1893 - 1953
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 43
1961 - 2020
HPI: 51.42
Rank: 44
1854 - 1936
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 45
Among people born in 1898, Marcel Griaule ranks 122. Before him are Irene Dunne, Benjamin Fondane, Lucius D. Clay, José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones, Helmut Hasse, and Vladimir Dekanozov. After him are Warren Sturgis McCulloch, Ernst Wollweber, Jacob Tullin Thams, Katharine Burr Blodgett, Armand Hammer, and Luís Carlos Prestes. Among people deceased in 1956, Marcel Griaule ranks 94. Before him are Charles Joughin, Meghnad Saha, Heinrich Barkhausen, André Marty, Carl Brockelmann, and Louis Rosier. After him are Max Beerbohm, Mohammed Hussein Heikal, Évariste Lévi-Provençal, Stan Ockers, Israel Zolli, and Elpidio Quirino.
1898 - 1990
HPI: 53.16
Rank: 116
1898 - 1944
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 117
1898 - 1978
HPI: 52.94
Rank: 118
1898 - 1980
HPI: 52.87
Rank: 119
1898 - 1979
HPI: 52.76
Rank: 120
1898 - 1953
HPI: 52.65
Rank: 121
1898 - 1956
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 122
1898 - 1969
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 123
1898 - 1967
HPI: 52.33
Rank: 124
1898 - 1954
HPI: 52.20
Rank: 125
1898 - 1979
HPI: 51.80
Rank: 126
1898 - 1990
HPI: 51.57
Rank: 127
1898 - 1990
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 128
1878 - 1956
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 88
1893 - 1956
HPI: 53.59
Rank: 89
1881 - 1956
HPI: 53.58
Rank: 90
1886 - 1956
HPI: 53.57
Rank: 91
1868 - 1956
HPI: 52.99
Rank: 92
1905 - 1956
HPI: 52.80
Rank: 93
1898 - 1956
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 94
1872 - 1956
HPI: 52.51
Rank: 95
1888 - 1956
HPI: 52.42
Rank: 96
1894 - 1956
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 97
1920 - 1956
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 98
1881 - 1956
HPI: 52.01
Rank: 99
1890 - 1956
HPI: 51.95
Rank: 100
Among people born in France, Marcel Griaule ranks 2,890 out of 6,011. Before him are Anselm of Laon (1050), Fulk II, Count of Anjou (920), Sophie Calle (1953), Charles Mangin (1866), Djibril Cissé (1981), and Nicolas Mignard (1606). After him are Eucherius of Lyon (380), Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou (945), Pascal Bruckner (1948), Édouard Detaille (1848), Henri Laurens (1885), and Charles Tournemire (1870).
1050 - 1117
HPI: 52.59
Rank: 2,884
920 - 960
HPI: 52.59
Rank: 2,885
1953 - Present
HPI: 52.58
Rank: 2,886
1866 - 1925
HPI: 52.58
Rank: 2,887
1981 - Present
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 2,888
1606 - 1668
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 2,889
1898 - 1956
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 2,890
380 - 449
HPI: 52.56
Rank: 2,891
945 - 1026
HPI: 52.56
Rank: 2,892
1948 - Present
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 2,893
1848 - 1912
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 2,894
1885 - 1954
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 2,895
1870 - 1939
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 2,896
Among anthropologists born in France, Marcel Griaule ranks 5. Before him are Paul Broca (1824), Marc Augé (1935), Jacques de Morgan (1857), and Pierre Clastres (1934). After him are Georges Vacher de Lapouge (1854), Maurice Godelier (1934), Alfred Sauvy (1898), Georges Balandier (1920), Marcellin Boule (1861), and Françoise Héritier (1933).
1824 - 1880
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 1
1935 - 2023
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 2
1857 - 1924
HPI: 55.15
Rank: 3
1934 - 1977
HPI: 53.87
Rank: 4
1898 - 1956
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 5
1854 - 1936
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 6
1934 - Present
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 7
1898 - 1990
HPI: 50.36
Rank: 8
1920 - 2016
HPI: 47.98
Rank: 9
1861 - 1942
HPI: 45.41
Rank: 10
1933 - 2017
HPI: 45.03
Rank: 11