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William Mitchell Ramsay

1851 - 1939

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Sir William Mitchell Ramsay (15 March 1851 – 20 April 1939) was a British archaeologist and New Testament scholar. He was the foremost authority of his day on the history of Asia Minor, and a leading scholar in the study of the New Testament. Ramsay was educated in the Tübingen school of thought (founded by F. C. Baur) which doubted the reliability of the New Testament, but his extensive archaeological and historical studies convinced him of its historical accuracy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Mitchell Ramsay has received more than 160,054 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. William Mitchell Ramsay is the 431st most popular historian, the 3,681st most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 41st most popular British Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, William Mitchell Ramsay ranks 431 out of 561Before him are G. M. Trevelyan, Frederic G. Kenyon, J. B. Bury, Andreas Maislinger, Constantine Paparrigopoulos, and Léon Gautier. After him are Frances Yates, Américo Castro, Daniel J. Boorstin, Michael Panaretos, Martin Noth, and H. A. R. Gibb.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, William Mitchell Ramsay ranks 85Before him are Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, Bedros Tourian, Frans Schollaert, Maksim Kovalevsky, Guillermo Billinghurst, and Spiru Haret. After him are Karl Moritz Schumann, Ekaterine Gabashvili, William Quan Judge, Rainer Ludwig Claisen, Walter Reed, and Manuel Curros Enríquez. Among people deceased in 1939, William Mitchell Ramsay ranks 132Before him are Georges Pitoëff, Madeleine Pelletier, Ford Sterling, Platon Oyunsky, Halil Pasha, and Prosper Bruggeman. After him are Sidney Howard, Lois Weber, Bautista Saavedra, Boris Grigoriev, Arthur E. Kennelly, and Sergey Gritsevets.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Mitchell Ramsay ranks 3,681 out of 8,785Before him are William Astbury (1898), Joe Hart (1987), Russell Brand (1975), Paul Ince (1967), Michael Kitchen (1948), and Sid Kimpton (1887). After him are Dorothy Tyler-Odam (1920), Ian Hunter (1939), Tobias Menzies (1974), Gwyneth Jones (1936), C. V. Boys (1855), and Margery Allingham (1904).

Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, William Mitchell Ramsay ranks 41Before him are Agnes Arber (1879), Stanley Morison (1889), Thomas Fuller (1608), Thomas Walker Arnold (1864), G. M. Trevelyan (1876), and Frederic G. Kenyon (1863). After him are Frances Yates (1899), George Finlay (1799), Martin Gilbert (1936), Niall Ferguson (1964), David Marshall Lang (1924), and Donald Nicol (1923).