ANTHROPOLOGIST

Georges Vacher de Lapouge

1854 - 1936

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Count Georges Vacher de Lapouge (French: [vaʃe də lapuʒ]; 12 December 1854 – 20 February 1936) was a French anthropologist and a theoretician of eugenics and scientific racism. He is known as the founder of anthroposociology, the anthropological and sociological study of race as a means of establishing the superiority of certain peoples. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georges Vacher de Lapouge is the 43rd most popular anthropologist, the 3,292nd most popular biography from France (down from 3,278th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Georges Vacher de Lapouge ranks 43 out of 93. Before him are Cheikh Anta Diop, Marcel Griaule, David Graeber, Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Edwin H. Colbert, and John Lloyd Stephens. After him are Paolo Mantegazza, Lubor Niederle, Louis Dumont, Adolf Bernhard Meyer, Ralph Linton, and Edmund Leach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Georges Vacher de Lapouge ranks 67. Before him are Adolf Erman, Joan Alcover, Jenny Nyström, Christiaan de Wet, Sergei Shchukin, and John Kemp Starley. After him are Jules Gilliéron, Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, Sergei Korsakoff, Heinrich Kreutz, Cornelis Lely, and Hermann von Stein. Among people deceased in 1936, Georges Vacher de Lapouge ranks 110. Before him are Jean Patou, Fatma Aliye Topuz, Marguerite Durand, Sergei Shchukin, Mikhail Kuzmin, and Ramiro Ledesma Ramos. After him are Konstantinos Demertzis, Juliette Adam, Karl Buresch, Ignacy Daszyński, Ferdynand Ruszczyc, and Alexander Karpinsky.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Vacher de Lapouge ranks 3,292 out of 6,770. Before him are Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé (1599), François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers (1753), Joan, Countess of Toulouse (1220), Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778), Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762), and Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756). After him are Mark Meadows (1959), Nicolas Gombert (1495), Maurice Larrouy (1872), Jean Louis Marie Poiret (1755), Albert I, Count of Namur (1000), and Bernard Lama (1963).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In France

Among anthropologists born in France, Georges Vacher de Lapouge ranks 6. Before him are Paul Broca (1824), Jacques de Morgan (1857), Marc Augé (1935), Pierre Clastres (1934), and Marcel Griaule (1898). After him are Alfred Sauvy (1898), Maurice Godelier (1934), Georges Balandier (1920), Philippe Descola (1949), Yves Coppens (1934), and Françoise Héritier (1933).

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