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Florentino Ameghino

1853 - 1911

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Florentino Ameghino (born Giovanni Battista Fiorino Giuseppe Ameghino; September 19, 1853 – August 6, 1911) was an Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist, whose fossil discoveries on the Argentine Pampas, especially on Patagonia, rank with those made in the western United States during the late 19th century. Along with his two brothers – Carlos and Juan – Florentino Ameghino was one of the most important founding figures in South American paleontology. From 1887 until his death, Ameghino was passionately devoted to the study of fossil mammals from Patagonia, with the valuable support of his brother Carlos Ameghino (1865–1936) who, between 1887 and 1902, made 14 trips to that region, where he discovered and collected numerous fossil faunas and made important stratigraphic observations. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Florentino Ameghino is the 71st most popular archaeologist (up from 72nd in 2019), the 3,079th most popular biography from Italy (up from 3,121st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Italian Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Florentino Ameghino ranks 71 out of 151. Before him are Donald Johanson, Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, James Quibell, François Bordes, Johann Andreas Wagner, and Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger. After him are Giuseppe Tucci, Tatiana Proskouriakoff, Peter Wilhelm Lund, Sylvanus Morley, Victor Loret, and Margaret Murray.

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Among people born in 1853, Florentino Ameghino ranks 68. Before him are Evgraf Fedorov, Karl von Einem, Hans von Koessler, Arthur Moritz Schoenflies, Hermann Wissmann, and Howard Pyle. After him are Marc-Émile Ruchet, John Wesley Hardin, Jaroslav Vrchlický, Mato Kósyk, José Santos Zelaya, and Ernest Fenollosa. Among people deceased in 1911, Florentino Ameghino ranks 59. Before him are Grigoriy Myasoyedov, Thomas Blake Glover, Adolf Bernhard Meyer, Ellen Swallow Richards, Quanah Parker, and Howard Pyle. After him are Alphonse Legros, Carolina Coronado, Nikolay Beketov, Kōtoku Shūsui, Anton Josef Gruscha, and Ernst Brenner.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Florentino Ameghino ranks 3,079 out of 5,161. Before him are Marcello Piacentini (1881), Mario Pizziolo (1909), Ricardo Ezzati Andrello (1942), Boccaccio Boccaccino (1460), Giovanni Battista Bassani (1650), and Domenico Mezzadri (1867). After him are Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791), Marino Morosini (1181), Reniero Zeno (1250), Camillo Boito (1836), Alvise Contarini (1601), and Giuseppe Occhialini (1907).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Italy

Among archaeologists born in Italy, Florentino Ameghino ranks 4. Before him are Ciriaco de' Pizzicolli (1391), Paul-Émile Botta (1802), and Giuseppe Fiorelli (1823). After him are Giuseppe Tucci (1894), and Massimo Pallottino (1909).

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