ARCHAEOLOGIST

Paul Pelliot

1878 - 1945

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Paul Eugène Pelliot (28 May 1878 – 26 October 1945) was a French Sinologist and Orientalist best known for his explorations of Central Asia and the Silk Road regions, and for his acquisition of many important Tibetan Empire-era manuscripts and Chinese texts at the Sachu printing center storage caves (Dunhuang), known as the Dunhuang manuscripts. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Pelliot has received more than 114,149 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Paul Pelliot is the 28th most popular archaeologist (down from 27th in 2019), the 1,901st most popular biography from France (down from 1,755th in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Paul Pelliot ranks 28 out of 151. Before him are Khaemweset, George Gaylord Simpson, Flinders Petrie, Leo Frobenius, Aurel Stein, and Bogdan Filov. After him are Yuri Knorozov, Othniel Charles Marsh, Isdal Woman, Robert Ballard, Wilhelm Dörpfeld, and Hat Hor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Paul Pelliot ranks 53. Before him are Angelica Balabanoff, Franz Schreker, Eino Leino, Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, Boris Kustodiev, and Manuel L. Quezon. After him are Princess Isabelle of Orléans, Upton Sinclair, Hans Ledwinka, Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Anton Hansen Tammsaare, and Alfréd Hajós. Among people deceased in 1945, Paul Pelliot ranks 126. Before him are Le Pétomane, Mário de Andrade, Bogdan Filov, Robert Desnos, Albrecht Penck, and Ernst-Robert Grawitz. After him are Kitaro Nishida, Constanze Manziarly, Hajime Sugiyama, Charles Fabry, Alexander Siloti, and Otto Kittel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Pelliot ranks 1,901 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles-André van Loo (1705), Charles de Bourbon (1523), Jean-Baptiste Bessières (1768), Louis Durey (1888), Daniel Revenu (1942), and Alain Juppé (1945). After him are Herleva (1003), Alphonse Allais (1854), Edward, Count of Savoy (1284), Marcabru (1200), Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon (1693), and Francis Veber (1937).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In France

Among archaeologists born in France, Paul Pelliot ranks 4. Before him are Jean-François Champollion (1790), Austen Henry Layard (1817), and Alcide d'Orbigny (1802). After him are André Leroi-Gourhan (1911), Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788), Henri Breuil (1877), Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet (1821), Victor Loret (1859), Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac (1778), André Parrot (1901), and Pierre Montet (1885).

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