ARCHAEOLOGIST

Paul-Émile Botta

1802 - 1870

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Paul-Émile Botta (6 December 1802 – 29 March 1870) was an Italian-born French scientist who served as Consul in Mosul (then in the Ottoman Empire, now in Iraq) from 1842, and who discovered the ruins of the ancient Assyrian capital of Dur-Sharrukin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul-Émile Botta has received more than 57,511 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Paul-Émile Botta is the 50th most popular archaeologist (down from 44th in 2019), the 2,301st most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,158th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Italian Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Paul-Émile Botta ranks 50 out of 151. Before him are Ernst Curtius, Henri Breuil, Margaret Murray, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, James Henry Breasted, and Ami Boué. After him are Max Mallowan, Colin Renfrew, Hormuzd Rassam, Johan Gunnar Andersson, Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, and Max von Oppenheim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Paul-Émile Botta ranks 33. Before him are Leopold Fitzinger, Adolphe Nourrit, Frederick William, Elector of Hesse, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, Mariano Arista, and Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg. After him are Niccolò Tommaseo, Cesare Pugni, Princess Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Prince Franz de Paula of Liechtenstein, Louis Niedermeyer, and Benoît Fourneyron. Among people deceased in 1870, Paul-Émile Botta ranks 29. Before him are Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia, Konstantin Ushinsky, Charles Auguste de Bériot, David Farragut, Justo José de Urquiza, and Charles Xavier Thomas. After him are Arthur Saint-Léon, Karel Jaromír Erben, Victor de Broglie, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Cesare Pugni, and Mykhailo Verbytskyi.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Paul-Émile Botta ranks 2,301 out of 5,161. Before him are Eduardo di Capua (1865), Archduke Maximilian of Austria-Este (1782), Ludovico di Varthema (1470), Ignazio La Russa (1947), Giuseppe Zanardelli (1826), and Roberto Assagioli (1888). After him are Albert Anastasia (1902), Gaspard Dughet (1613), Luciana Paluzzi (1937), Mauro Bolognini (1922), Giovanni Battista Amici (1786), and Lanfranc (1005).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Italy

Among archaeologists born in Italy, Paul-Émile Botta ranks 3. Before him are Ciriaco de' Pizzicolli (1391), and Giuseppe Fiorelli (1823). After him are Giuseppe Tucci (1894), Florentino Ameghino (1853), and Massimo Pallottino (1909).

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