ARCHAEOLOGIST

Yuri Knorozov

1922 - 1999

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Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov (Russian: Ю́рий Валенти́нович Кноро́зов; 19 November 1922 – 31 March 1999) was a Soviet and Russian linguist, epigrapher, and ethnographer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yuri Knorozov has received more than 473,985 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Yuri Knorozov is the 29th most popular archaeologist (up from 38th in 2019), the 247th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 279th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Archaeologist.

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Yuri Knorozov ranks 29 out of 151. Before him are George Gaylord Simpson, Flinders Petrie, Leo Frobenius, Aurel Stein, Bogdan Filov, and Paul Pelliot. After him are Othniel Charles Marsh, Isdal Woman, Robert Ballard, Wilhelm Dörpfeld, Hat Hor, and André Leroi-Gourhan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Yuri Knorozov ranks 112. Before him are Miloš Jakeš, Eleanor Parker, Veronica Lake, Michael Ventris, Clair Cameron Patterson, and Serge Reggiani. After him are Günter Behnisch, Paul Marcinkus, Kim Hunter, Eileen Essell, Saad el-Shazly, and Hussein Onn. Among people deceased in 1999, Yuri Knorozov ranks 66. Before him are Gyula Zsengellér, Igor Netto, Sebastian Haffner, Momčilo Đujić, Dusty Springfield, and Marion Zimmer Bradley. After him are Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, Betty Robinson, Pierre Clémenti, DeForest Kelley, Maurice Couve de Murville, and Paul Bowles.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Yuri Knorozov ranks 247 out of 1,365. Before him are Abram Ioffe (1880), Arseny Tarkovsky (1907), Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876), Oleksii Reznikov (1966), Petro Doroshenko (1627), and Ruslana (1973). After him are Maurycy Gottlieb (1856), David Burliuk (1882), Igor Belanov (1960), Adam Zagajewski (1945), Polina Zhemchuzhina (1897), and Ludwik Fleck (1896).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Ukraine

Among archaeologists born in Ukraine, Yuri Knorozov ranks 1. After him are Ivan Borkovský (1897).

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