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Hugo Winckler

1863 - 1913

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Hugo Winckler (4 July 1863 – 19 April 1913) was a German orientalist, archaeologist, and historian who uncovered the capital of the Hittite Empire (Hattusa) at Boğazkale, Turkey. A student of the languages of the ancient Middle East, he wrote extensively on Assyrian cuneiform and the Old Testament, compiled a history of Babylonia and Assyria that was published in 1891, and translated both the Code of Hammurabi and the Amarna letters. In 1904, he was appointed professor of Oriental languages at the University of Berlin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hugo Winckler is the 84th most popular archaeologist (up from 105th in 2019), the 4,067th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,620th in 2019) and the 15th most popular German Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Hugo Winckler ranks 84 out of 151. Before him are Dorothy Garrod, Halet Çambel, Charles W. Gilmore, William F. Albright, Jean-François Séguier, and Joseph Orbeli. After him are Edward Robinson, Kathleen Kenyon, Ernst Herzfeld, Pierre Montet, Israel Finkelstein, and Anne Stine Ingstad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Hugo Winckler ranks 116. Before him are Lawrence Lambe, Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones, Jāzeps Vītols, Aleksey Krylov, Alfred Lacroix, and Mary Whiton Calkins. After him are Blanche Bingley, Aliagha Shikhlinski, Hermann Obrist, Broncia Koller-Pinell, Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis, and Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi. Among people deceased in 1913, Hugo Winckler ranks 67. Before him are Felix Draeseke, Léon Teisserenc de Bort, Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino, Heinrich Martin Weber, Étienne Laspeyres, and Konstantinos Tsiklitiras. After him are Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line, Louis Hémon, Walter Rutherford, Johannes Linnankoski, Camille Lemonnier, and Segismundo Moret.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hugo Winckler ranks 4,069 out of 7,253. Before him are Edgar Reitz (1932), Basilius Besler (1561), Irm Hermann (1942), Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau (1799), Laura Perls (1905), and Inge Scholl (1917). After him are Albert von Le Coq (1860), Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs (1831), Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line (1832), Georg Friedrich Knapp (1842), Magdalene of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (1553), and Max von Hausen (1846).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among archaeologists born in Germany, Hugo Winckler ranks 15. Before him are Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1853), Max von Oppenheim (1860), Adolf Furtwängler (1853), Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1827), Johann Andreas Wagner (1797), and Halet Çambel (1916). After him are Ernst Herzfeld (1879), Rudolf Wagner (1805), Klaus Schmidt (1953), and Franz Weidenreich (1873).

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