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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 52,313 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Paul-Émile Botta is the 44th most popular archaeologist (down from 43rd in 2019), the 2,163rd most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,384th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Italian Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Paul-Émile Botta ranks 44 out of 104Before him are Yuri Knorozov, Henri Breuil, Ernst Curtius, George Smith, Meritites I, and Hat Hor. After him are James Henry Breasted, Alan Gardiner, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, Gustaf Kossinna, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, and Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Paul-Émile Botta ranks 29Before him are Carl Ritter von Ghega, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, Frederick William, Elector of Hesse, Harriet Martineau, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, and Arnold Ruge. After him are Mariano Arista, Niccolò Tommaseo, Princess Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Cesare Pugni, Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg, and Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Württemberg. Among people deceased in 1870, Paul-Émile Botta ranks 29Before him are Charles Auguste de Bériot, Konstantin Ushinsky, David Farragut, Justo José de Urquiza, Charles Xavier Thomas, and Victor Noir. After him are Karel Jaromír Erben, Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, Prince Frederick of Württemberg, Cesare Pugni, Victor de Broglie, and Imre Frivaldszky.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Paul-Émile Botta ranks 2,163 out of 4,668Before him are Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (1964), Clare of Montefalco (1268), Silvana Pampanini (1925), Mondino de Luzzi (1275), Luzzasco Luzzaschi (1545), and Adalbert I of Ivrea (880). After him are Riccardo Chailly (1953), Giovanni Antonio Amadeo (1447), Catherine of Ricci (1522), Titus Lartius (-600), Ostilio Ricci (1540), and Dionigi Tettamanzi (1934).

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Italy

Among archaeologists born in Italy, Paul-Émile Botta ranks 2Before him are Ciriaco de' Pizzicolli (1391). After him are Giuseppe Fiorelli (1823), Florentino Ameghino (1853), Giuseppe Tucci (1894), and Massimo Pallottino (1909).