ANTHROPOLOGIST

Eugène Dubois

1858 - 1940

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Marie Eugène François Thomas Dubois (French: [øʒɛn dybwɑ]; 28 January 1858 – 16 December 1940) was a Dutch paleoanthropologist and geologist. He earned worldwide fame for his discovery of Pithecanthropus erectus (later redesignated Homo erectus), or "Java Man". Although hominid fossils had been found and studied before, Dubois was the first anthropologist to embark upon a purposeful search for them. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eugène Dubois is the 14th most popular anthropologist (up from 15th in 2019), the 119th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 158th in 2019) and the most popular Dutch Anthropologist.

Eugène Dubois is most famous for discovering the "Java Man" in 1891.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Eugène Dubois ranks 14 out of 93. Before him are Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Franz Boas, Paul Broca, Gregory Bateson, and Clifford Geertz. After him are Birutė Galdikas, Knud Rasmussen, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Mary Leakey, and Mary Douglas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Eugène Dubois ranks 25. Before him are Franz Boas, Maria Christina of Austria, Princess Louise of Belgium, Marie Bashkirtseff, Keke Geladze, and Ludwig Quidde. After him are Eugène Ysaÿe, Beatrice Webb, Kang Youwei, Mihajlo Pupin, Eleonora Duse, and Giovanni Segantini. Among people deceased in 1940, Eugène Dubois ranks 28. Before him are Spyridon Louis, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Gerda Wegener, Jesse Livermore, Kyösti Kallio, and Lluís Companys. After him are Italo Balbo, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Vito Volterra, Katharina Schratt, Édouard Vuillard, and Vsevolod Meyerhold.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Eugène Dubois ranks 119 out of 1,646. Before him are Willem Schouten (1567), Willem Claesz. Heda (1594), Gerard David (1450), Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727), Jan Swammerdam (1637), and Anton Mauve (1838). After him are Claus Sluter (1340), Dennis Bergkamp (1969), Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692), Colonel Tom Parker (1909), Marinus van der Lubbe (1909), and Jacob Clemens non Papa (1510).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Netherlands

Among anthropologists born in Netherlands, Eugène Dubois ranks 1. 

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