ARCHAEOLOGIST

Max von Oppenheim

1860 - 1946

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Baron Max von Oppenheim (15 July 1860 – 17 November 1946) was a German lawyer, diplomat, ancient historian, pan-Islamist and archaeologist. He was a member of the Oppenheim banking dynasty. Abandoning his career in diplomacy, he discovered the site of Tell Halaf in 1899 and conducted excavations there in 1911–13 and again in 1927–29. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max von Oppenheim has received more than 142,480 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Max von Oppenheim is the 56th most popular archaeologist, the 3,096th most popular biography from Germany and the 10th most popular German Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Max von Oppenheim ranks 56 out of 151. Before him are Paul-Émile Botta, Max Mallowan, Colin Renfrew, Hormuzd Rassam, Johan Gunnar Andersson, and Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet. After him are Heinrich Karl Brugsch, Adolf Furtwängler, Johan David Åkerblad, Robert Broom, Victor Loret, and Alan Gardiner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Max von Oppenheim ranks 76. Before him are Eugen Goldstein, Hugo Preuß, Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Carl Anton Larsen, William Bayliss, and André Prévost. After him are Ottó Bláthy, Douglas Hyde, Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Franz Nissl, Florence Harding, and Henrietta Szold. Among people deceased in 1946, Max von Oppenheim ranks 105. Before him are Edmund Glaise-Horstenau, Gerda Steinhoff, Claus Schilling, John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Ahmad Kasravi. After him are Albert Sechehaye, François de La Rocque, Ioannis Rallis, Heinrich George, Dion Fortune, and Ferdinand Marian.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max von Oppenheim ranks 3,096 out of 7,253. Before him are Theodor Meynert (1833), E. F. Schumacher (1911), Johann Jakob Heckel (1790), Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths (1759), Roland Matthes (1950), and Cornelia Froboess (1943). After him are Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1800), Ernst Ziller (1837), David Garrett (1980), Mehmet Scholl (1970), Fritz Busch (1890), and Magdalena Sibylla of Hesse-Darmstadt (1652).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among archaeologists born in Germany, Max von Oppenheim ranks 10. Before him are Karl Richard Lepsius (1810), Leo Frobenius (1873), Isdal Woman (1940), Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1853), Ernst Curtius (1814), and Ami Boué (1794). After him are Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1827), Adolf Furtwängler (1853), Halet Çambel (1916), Johann Andreas Wagner (1797), Ernst Herzfeld (1879), and Hugo Winckler (1863).

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