ANTHROPOLOGIST

Bronisław Malinowski

1884 - 1942

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Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (Polish: [brɔˈɲiswaf maliˈnɔfskʲi]; 7 April 1884 – 16 May 1942) was a Polish anthropologist and ethnologist whose writings on ethnography, social theory, and field research have exerted a lasting influence on the discipline of anthropology. Malinowski was born and raised in what was part of the Austrian partition of Poland, Kraków. He graduated from King John III Sobieski 2nd High School. In the years 1902–1906 he studied at the philosophy department of the Jagiellonian University and received his doctorate there in 1908. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bronisław Malinowski is the 2nd most popular anthropologist, the 44th most popular biography from Poland (down from 43rd in 2019) and the most popular Polish Anthropologist.

Bronisław malinowski is most famous for his fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands. Malinowski was a Polish anthropologist who studied the people of the Trobriand Islands and their culture.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Bronisław Malinowski ranks 2 out of 93. Before him are Claude Lévi-Strauss. After him are Jane Goodall, James George Frazer, Edward Burnett Tylor, Lewis H. Morgan, A. L. Kroeber, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Franz Boas, Paul Broca, and Gregory Bateson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Bronisław Malinowski ranks 8. Before him are Harry S. Truman, Amedeo Modigliani, Hideki Tojo, Isoroku Yamamoto, Edvard Beneš, and İsmet İnönü. After him are Édouard Daladier, Peter Debye, Max Brod, Walther von Reichenau, Claude Auchinleck, and Anton Drexler. Among people deceased in 1942, Bronisław Malinowski ranks 9. Before him are Janusz Korczak, Richard Willstätter, Edith Stein, José Raúl Capablanca, Jean Baptiste Perrin, and William Henry Bragg. After him are Robert Musil, Walther von Reichenau, Anton Drexler, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Fritz Todt, and Robert Bosch.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Bronisław Malinowski ranks 44 out of 1,694. Before him are Günther von Kluge (1882), Walther Nernst (1864), Arthur Rubinstein (1887), Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923), Vladislaus II of Hungary (1456), and Rudolf Virchow (1821). After him are Klaus Kinski (1926), Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768), Casimir III the Great (1310), Kurt Alder (1902), Faustina Kowalska (1905), and Paul Ehrlich (1854).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Poland

Among anthropologists born in Poland, Bronisław Malinowski ranks 1. After him are Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring (1755).

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