ANTHROPOLOGIST

Fredrik Barth

1928 - 2016

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Thomas Fredrik Weybye Barth (22 December 1928 – 24 January 2016) was a Norwegian social anthropologist who published several ethnographic books with a clear formalist view. He was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Boston University, and previously held professorships at the University of Oslo, the University of Bergen (where he founded the Department of Social Anthropology), Emory University and Harvard University. He was appointed a government scholar in 1985. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Fredrik Barth is the 31st most popular anthropologist (down from 27th in 2024), the 2,293rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,208th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Fredrik Barth ranks 31 out of 93. Before him are Andrey Korotayev, Edward T. Hall, Jacques de Morgan, Ann Dunham, Marshall Sahlins, and Marc Augé. After him are Richard Leakey, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Franco Basaglia, Pierre Clastres, and Cheikh Anta Diop.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Fredrik Barth ranks 166. Before him are Martin Davis, László Budai, Thomas E. Kurtz, Nodar Dumbadze, Yaacov Agam, and Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia. After him are Henri Debehogne, Cannonball Adderley, Joseph Kittinger, János Kornai, Wolfhart Pannenberg, and Juris Hartmanis. Among people deceased in 2016, Fredrik Barth ranks 151. Before him are Andrew Grove, Péter Esterházy, Artur Fischer, Gato Barbieri, Franco Citti, and Oleg Popov. After him are Paulo Evaristo Arns, Erich Rudorffer, Maurice White, Isao Tomita, Johnny Rebel, and Victor Stănculescu.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Fredrik Barth ranks 2,294 out of 7,253. Before him are Heinrich Christian Schumacher (1780), Michael Maestlin (1550), Jordan of Saxony (1190), Klaus Allofs (1956), Max Morlock (1925), and Friedrich Traun (1876). After him are Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen (1694), Erich Topp (1914), Josef Bürckel (1895), Philip, Elector Palatine (1448), Karl Mauss (1898), and Mario Gómez (1985).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Germany

Among anthropologists born in Germany, Fredrik Barth ranks 4. Before him are Franz Boas (1858), Birutė Galdikas (1946), and Wilhelm Schmidt (1868). After him are Adolf Bernhard Meyer (1840), Johann Carl Fuhlrott (1803), and Jean Malaurie (1922).

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