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Hormuzd Rassam

1826 - 1910

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Hormuzd Rassam (Arabic: هرمز رسام; Syriac: ܗܪܡܙܕ ܪܣܐܡ; 1826 – 16 September 1910) was an Assyriologist and author. He is known for making a number of important archaeological discoveries from 1877 to 1882, including the clay tablets that contained the Epic of Gilgamesh, the world's oldest notable literature. He is widely believed to be the first-known Middle Eastern and Assyrian archaeologist from the Ottoman empire. He emigrated to the United Kingdom, where he was naturalized as a British citizen, settling in Brighton. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hormuzd Rassam is the 56th most popular archaeologist (down from 53rd in 2019), the 246th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 245th in 2019) and the most popular Iraqi Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Hormuzd Rassam ranks 56 out of 151. Before him are Max von Oppenheim, Gustaf Kossinna, José Bonaparte, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, Spyridon Marinatos, and Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes. After him are Neferkare Tereru, Meritites I, Colin Groves, Alan Gardiner, Giuseppe Fiorelli, and Adolf Furtwängler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, Hormuzd Rassam ranks 35. Before him are Giuseppe Zanardelli, Walter Bagehot, Gustave Moynier, Rahime Perestu Sultan, Frederic Edwin Church, and Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. After him are Richard Christopher Carrington, Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann, Princess Alexandra of Bavaria, İbrahim Şinasi, Franz Grashof, and Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg. Among people deceased in 1910, Hormuzd Rassam ranks 56. Before him are Reginald Doherty, Emmanuel Frémiet, Luo Yixiu, Winslow Homer, Gustave Moynier, and Princess Marie of the Netherlands. After him are Laza Kostić, Edouard Van Beneden, Paolo Mantegazza, William Graham Sumner, Gustav Adolf von Götzen, and Jorge Chávez.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Hormuzd Rassam ranks 246 out of 384. Before him are Al-Samawal al-Maghribi (1130), Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq (800), Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi (980), Bashar ibn Burd (714), Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani (1970), and Erishum I (-2000). After him are Ninurta-apal-Ekur (-1300), Mutakkil-Nusku (-1200), Al-Mundhir III ibn al-Nu'man (500), Muqtada al-Sadr (1974), Ikunum (-1900), and Mashallah ibn Athari (740).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Iraq

Among archaeologists born in Iraq, Hormuzd Rassam ranks 1. After him are Akurgal (-2600).

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