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Auguste Mariette

1821 - 1881

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François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette (11 February 1821 – 18 January 1881) was a French scholar, archaeologist and Egyptologist, and the founder of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities, the forerunner of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Auguste Mariette is the 2,664th most popular politician (down from 2,272nd in 2019), the 845th most popular biography from France (down from 773rd in 2019) and the 196th most popular French Politician.

Auguste Mariette is most famous for his discovery of the Rosetta Stone. He was also a French archaeologist and Egyptologist.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Auguste Mariette ranks 2,664 out of 19,576Before him are Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, Rusudan of Georgia, Omar Bongo, Al-Walid II, Liu Shan, and Stefan Milutin. After him are Muhammad bin Saud, Prince William of Hesse-Kassel, Berengar II of Italy, Zimri, Khieu Samphan, and Juscelino Kubitschek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Auguste Mariette ranks 7Before him are Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, Hermann von Helmholtz, Rudolf Virchow, and August Schleicher. After him are Lola Montez, Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, Elizabeth Blackwell, Wilhelm Tempel, Louis Vuitton, and Pauline Viardot. Among people deceased in 1881, Auguste Mariette ranks 13Before him are Lewis H. Morgan, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Thomas Carlyle, Jenny von Westphalen, and Henri Vieuxtemps. After him are Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg, Nikolai Rubinstein, Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Empress Dowager Ci'an, Nikolay Pirogov, and Theobald Boehm.

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In France

Among people born in France, Auguste Mariette ranks 845 out of 6,770Before him are Henri Lefebvre (1901), Henri Fantin-Latour (1836), Jacques Hadamard (1865), Pierre Loti (1850), Marina Vlady (1938), and Ivo of Kermartin (1253). After him are Lorin Maazel (1930), Félix Guattari (1930), Marie de France (1101), Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741), Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755), and Mylène Demongeot (1935).

Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Auguste Mariette ranks 196Before him are Richard II, Duke of Normandy (963), Louis, Prince of Condé (1530), Louise of Savoy (1476), Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736), Henry, Count of Portugal (1066), and Nicolas Fouquet (1615). After him are François Darlan (1881), Paul Reynaud (1878), François Bayrou (1951), Theobald I of Navarre (1201), Marie François Sadi Carnot (1837), and Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (1279).