ARCHAEOLOGIST

Miroslav Verner

1941 - Today

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Miroslav Verner (born October 31, 1941, in Brno) is a Czech egyptologist, who specializes in the history and archaeology of Ancient Egypt of the Old Kingdom and especially of the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt. Verner is a specialist on the archaeology of the Old Kingdom pyramids, and published one of the fundamental syntheses on the subject, in a new, updated edition in 2021. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Miroslav Verner has received more than 33,240 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Miroslav Verner is the 136th most popular archaeologist (down from 126th in 2019), the 745th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 665th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Czech Archaeologist.

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  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Miroslav Verner ranks 136 out of 151Before him are Michael D. Coe, Arthur Surridge Hunt, Davidson Black, John M. Allegro, Ivan Borkovský, and Grahame Clark. After him are Alexey Okladnikov, Muhibbe Darga, Paolo Orsi, Bernard Pyne Grenfell, John Garstang, and Jale İnan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Miroslav Verner ranks 542Before him are Monika Maron, Tony Dunne, Horst Meyer, Marty Riessen, Mária Gulácsy, and Luigi Ferrando. After him are Irma Thomas, Nelson López, Takao Sakurai, Mário da Graça Machungo, Vyacheslav Vedenin, and Faith Leech.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Miroslav Verner ranks 745 out of 1,200Before him are Ladislav Vácha (1899), Jan Peka (1894), Verner Lička (1954), Václav Mottl (1914), Karel Jarolím (1956), and Milena Hübschmannová (1933). After him are Siegfried Flesch (1872), Valentin Loos (1895), Vilém Goppold von Lobsdorf (1869), Lea De Mae (1976), Antonín Slavíček (1870), and Magdalena Kožená (1973).

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Czechia

Among archaeologists born in Czechia, Miroslav Verner ranks 2Before him are Karel Absolon (1877).