ARCHAEOLOGIST

André Parrot

1901 - 1980

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André Charles Ulrich Parrot (15 February 1901 – 24 August 1980) was a French archaeologist specializing in the ancient Near East. He led excavations in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria, and is best known for his work at Mari, Syria, where he led important excavations from 1933 to 1975. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. André Parrot is the 63rd most popular archaeologist (up from 65th in 2019), the 3,372nd most popular biography from France (up from 3,522nd in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, André Parrot ranks 63 out of 151. Before him are Neferkare Tereru, Meritites I, Colin Groves, Alan Gardiner, Giuseppe Fiorelli, and Adolf Furtwängler. After him are Heinrich Karl Brugsch, Donald Johanson, Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, James Quibell, François Bordes, and Johann Andreas Wagner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, André Parrot ranks 159. Before him are György Orth, Prince Christoph of Hesse, George Raft, Kwon Ki-ok, Agostinho Fortes Filho, and Henri Tomasi. After him are Lanza del Vasto, Ebbe Schwartz, Sergei Tumansky, Kurt Jooss, Dmitry Lelyushenko, and Werner Egk. Among people deceased in 1980, André Parrot ranks 147. Before him are Alberto Demicheli, Andrei Amalrik, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, George Raft, Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark, and Alfred Andersch. After him are Oskar Kummetz, Miliza Korjus, Roza Eskenazi, Sohrab Sepehri, Jacqueline Cochran, and Torcuato Fernández-Miranda.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Parrot ranks 3,372 out of 6,770. Before him are Loyset Compère (1440), Henri Vidal (1919), Emma Calvé (1858), Rutebeuf (1300), Guillaume Faye (1949), and Georges Mathieu (1921). After him are Olivier Blanchard (1948), Claude Cahen (1909), Jacques Tardi (1946), Robert Enrico (1931), Henri de Montmorency, 4th Duke of Montmorency (1595), and Charles Coste (1924).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In France

Among archaeologists born in France, André Parrot ranks 8. Before him are Alcide d'Orbigny (1802), Austen Henry Layard (1817), Paul Pelliot (1878), André Leroi-Gourhan (1911), Henri Breuil (1877), and Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788). After him are Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet (1821), François Bordes (1919), Victor Loret (1859), Jean-François Séguier (1703), Pierre Montet (1885), and Christiane Desroches Noblecourt (1913).

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