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Austen Henry Layard

1817 - 1894

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Sir Austen Henry Layard (; 5 March 1817 – 5 July 1894) was an English Assyriologist, traveller, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat. He was born to a mostly English family in Paris and largely raised in Italy. He is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal. Most of his finds are now in the British Museum. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Austen Henry Layard is the 26th most popular archaeologist (down from 20th in 2019), the 1,489th most popular biography from France (down from 1,479th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Austen Henry Layard ranks 26 out of 151. Before him are Zahi Hawass, Karl Richard Lepsius, George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, Oscar Montelius, Khaemweset, and Louis Leakey. After him are Flinders Petrie, Othniel Charles Marsh, Leo Frobenius, John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, Paul Pelliot, and George Gaylord Simpson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Austen Henry Layard ranks 20. Before him are Joseph Dalton Hooker, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Princess Clémentine of Orléans, Theodor Storm, Hermann Lotze, and Pierre Larousse. After him are Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg, Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, Albert von Kölliker, Jung Bahadur Rana, and Archduke Stephen, Palatine of Hungary. Among people deceased in 1894, Austen Henry Layard ranks 21. Before him are John Sparrow David Thompson, Theodor Billroth, Leconte de Lisle, Emmanuel Chabrier, Nadezhda von Meck, and Hassan I of Morocco. After him are Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Eugène Charles Catalan, Nikolai Ge, Alexander von Middendorff, William Waddington, and August Kundt.

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In France

Among people born in France, Austen Henry Layard ranks 1,489 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Luc Nancy (1940), Maurice Barrès (1862), Charles Alexandre de Calonne (1734), Charles François de Cisternay du Fay (1698), Georges Feydeau (1862), and Michel Richard Delalande (1657). After him are John V, Duke of Brittany (1389), Henry I, Count of Champagne (1127), Duchenne de Boulogne (1806), Jacqueline Boyer (1941), Victor Cousin (1792), and Theobald V, Count of Blois (1130).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In France

Among archaeologists born in France, Austen Henry Layard ranks 3. Before him are Jean-François Champollion (1790), and Alcide d'Orbigny (1802). After him are Paul Pelliot (1878), André Leroi-Gourhan (1911), Henri Breuil (1877), Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788), André Parrot (1901), Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet (1821), François Bordes (1919), Victor Loret (1859), and Jean-François Séguier (1703).

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