ANTHROPOLOGIST

Wilhelm Schmidt

1868 - 1954

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Wilhelm Schmidt (February 16, 1868 — February 10, 1954) was a German-Austrian Catholic priest, linguist and ethnologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Schmidt has received more than 12,265 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Wilhelm Schmidt is the 31st most popular anthropologist (down from 24th in 2019), the 2,417th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,974th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Anthropologist.

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  • 55.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Wilhelm Schmidt ranks 31 out of 93. Before him are Ann Dunham, Jacques de Morgan, Fredrik Barth, Marvin Harris, Raymond Dart, and Pierre Clastres. After him are Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Richard Leakey, Franco Basaglia, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Marcel Griaule, and Jean Malaurie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Wilhelm Schmidt ranks 86. Before him are Fakhri Pasha, Keisuke Okada, Korbinian Brodmann, Arturo Alessandri, Venceslau Brás, and Evelyn Beatrice Hall. After him are Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg, Robert W. Wood, Alois Musil, Camille Jenatzy, Oskar Merikanto, and Giovanni Giacometti. Among people deceased in 1954, Wilhelm Schmidt ranks 55. Before him are Claude Cahun, Princess Antonia of Luxembourg, James Hilton, Jacob Tullin Thams, Robert H. Jackson, and Emil Leon Post. After him are Princess Maria Ludwiga Theresia of Bavaria, Herms Niel, Thành Thái, Franz Neumann, Yehuda Ashlag, and José Millán-Astray.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Schmidt ranks 2,417 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich Christian Diez (1794), Heinrich Bär (1913), Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1789), Astrid Kirchherr (1938), Princess Hermine of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1797), and Heinz Rühmann (1902). After him are Anna Schäffer (1882), John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1550), Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725), Sahra Wagenknecht (1969), Karlheinz Deschner (1924), and Hans Tilkowski (1935).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Germany

Among anthropologists born in Germany, Wilhelm Schmidt ranks 3. Before him are Franz Boas (1858), and Fredrik Barth (1928). After him are Jean Malaurie (1922), Birutė Galdikas (1946), Johann Carl Fuhlrott (1803), and Adolf Bernhard Meyer (1840).

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