ANTHROPOLOGIST

W. H. R. Rivers

1864 - 1922

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William Halse Rivers Rivers (12 March 1864 – 4 June 1922) was an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist known for treatment of First World War officers suffering shell shock, so they could be returned to combat. Rivers' most famous patient was the war poet Siegfried Sassoon, with whom he remained close friends until his own sudden death. During the early years of the 20th century, Rivers developed new lines of psychological research. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of W. H. R. Rivers has received more than 276,593 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. W. H. R. Rivers is the 85th most popular anthropologist, the 4,990th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 14th most popular British Anthropologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, W. H. R. Rivers ranks 85 out of 93. Before him are Ashley Montagu, Carleton S. Coon, Françoise Héritier, Marilyn Strathern, Adolf Bernhard Meyer, and Hugh Falconer. After him are Grete Mostny, Napoleon Chagnon, Eugenie Scott, Edwin H. Colbert, Chris Stringer, and Thomas Hylland Eriksen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, W. H. R. Rivers ranks 169. Before him are Alice Davenport, Anna Golubkina, Cosmo Gordon Lang, Rukhmabai, Emine Semiye Önasya, and Antonín Sova. After him are Frank Chapman, Jakob Jakobsen, Oscar Baumann, George Nichols, Charles Marion Russell, and Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet. Among people deceased in 1922, W. H. R. Rivers ranks 128. Before him are Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, William Desmond Taylor, Lyman Abbott, William Christie, Pál Simon, and Henry Lawson. After him are Liberato Marcial Rojas, John Munro Longyear, Tullio Bozza, Erskine Childers, Gösta Runö, and Arthur Wesley Dow.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, W. H. R. Rivers ranks 4,990 out of 8,785. Before him are Gilbert White (1720), Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard (1873), Duncan James (1978), Jimmy Murphy (1910), Laura Knight (1877), and Zadie Smith (1975). After him are Mary Peters (1939), Margaret Drabble (1939), Claude Buckenham (1876), Dorothy Shirley (1939), Coventry Patmore (1823), and Owen Barfield (1898).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among anthropologists born in United Kingdom, W. H. R. Rivers ranks 14. Before him are Victor Turner (1920), Edmund Leach (1910), Jack Goody (1919), Ashley Montagu (1905), Marilyn Strathern (1941), and Hugh Falconer (1808). After him are Chris Stringer (1947), and Alice Roberts (1973).

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