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Afet İnan

1908 - 1985

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Ayşe Afet İnan (30 October 1908 – 8 June 1985) was a Turkish historian and sociologist. She was one of the eight adopted daughters of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. She was known to be involved in the practice of physical anthropology, as she measured over sixty thousand skulls in Anatolia, which was aimed to support the Turkish History Thesis. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Afet İnan is the 174th most popular historian (down from 127th in 2019), the 446th most popular biography from Greece (down from 371st in 2019) and the 8th most popular Greek Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Afet İnan ranks 174 out of 561. Before her are Ian Kershaw, Otto von Gierke, Mirkhvand, Antony Beevor, Charles Diehl, and Ibn al-Faqih. After her are Max Dvořák, George Cœdès, Karl Lamprecht, Max Weinreich, Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, and Friedrich Meinecke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Afet İnan ranks 114. Before her are Bengt Strömgren, Jean Delannoy, Bernard Lee, Edgar Faure, Salo Flohr, and Ho Jong-suk. After her are Robert Rossen, Christa Schroeder, Eugen Weidmann, Aurelio Peccei, John Mills, and Mario Evaristo. Among people deceased in 1985, Afet İnan ranks 80. Before her are Vasyl Stus, Philly Joe Jones, Mary Kenneth Keller, Herbert Bayer, Wolfgang Reitherman, and Fred Uhlman. After her are Lovro von Matačić, Denis de Rougemont, Evgeny Lifshitz, Helmuth Plessner, Karl Menger, and Theodore Sturgeon.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Afet İnan ranks 446 out of 1,024. Before her are Telesilla (-500), Neferkara I (-2780), Aristomenes (-700), Nikolaos Plastiras (1883), Glaucias of Taulantii (-335), and Glaucon (-445). After her are Damaskinos of Athens (1891), Pavlos Kountouriotis (1855), Asclepigenia (400), Dimitrios Ioannidis (1923), Turhan Pasha Përmeti (1846), and Maria Farantouri (1947).

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Among HISTORIANS In Greece

Among historians born in Greece, Afet İnan ranks 8. Before her are Xenophon (-430), Polybius (-208), Quintus Curtius Rufus (41), Callisthenes (-360), Theopompus (-400), and Michael Glykas (1125). After her are Krste Misirkov (1874), Philochorus (-340), Marsyas of Pella (-400), Leo Allatius (1586), Helene Ahrweiler (1926), and Robert Kagan (1958).

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