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E. A. Wallis Budge

1857 - 1934

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Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (27 July 1857 – 23 November 1934) was an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East. He made numerous trips to Egypt and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan on behalf of the British Museum to buy antiquities, and helped it build its collection of cuneiform tablets, manuscripts, and papyri. He published many books on Egyptology, helping to bring the findings to larger audiences. In 1920, he was knighted for his service to Egyptology and the British Museum. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. E. A. Wallis Budge is the 107th most popular archaeologist (down from 99th in 2019), the 3,868th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,463rd in 2019) and the 20th most popular British Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, E. A. Wallis Budge ranks 107 out of 151. Before him are Grafton Elliot Smith, John Marshall, Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac, Henri Frankfort, John Evans, and Leon Kozłowski. After him are Akurgal, Mortimer Wheeler, Phillip V. Tobias, Stith Thompson, José Leite de Vasconcelos, and Désiré Charnay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, E. A. Wallis Budge ranks 120. Before him are Constantin Coandă, Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Christian Wilhelm Allers, Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, Jules de Trooz, and František Ondříček. After him are Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch, Aleksei Evert, Milton S. Hershey, John Joly, Clarence Darrow, and Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer. Among people deceased in 1934, E. A. Wallis Budge ranks 127. Before him are Aristarkh Belopolsky, Pretty Boy Floyd, Nelly Diener, Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso, Sergey Oldenburg, and Oskar von Miller. After him are Toros Toramanian, Blind Blake, Orest Khvolson, Eduard Bagritsky, Manuel Márquez Sterling, and Mikhail Matyushin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, E. A. Wallis Budge ranks 3,869 out of 8,785. Before him are Ernest Belfort Bax (1854), William de Wiveleslie Abney (1843), Alex Garland (1970), William Sherard (1659), Susan George (1950), and Michael Carrick (1981). After him are Harry Brearley (1871), Charles Howard Hinton (1853), Lance Macklin (1919), George Nares (1831), Richard Leach Maddox (1816), and Herbert Marshall (1890).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, E. A. Wallis Budge ranks 20. Before him are James Quibell (1867), Dorothy Garrod (1892), Kathleen Kenyon (1906), Dorothea Bate (1878), John Marshall (1876), and John Evans (1823). After him are Mortimer Wheeler (1890), James Mellaart (1925), Charles Dawson (1864), John Beazley (1885), Grahame Clark (1907), and James Prinsep (1799).

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