ARCHAEOLOGIST

Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes

1788 - 1868

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Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (French pronunciation: [ʒak buʃe d(ə) kʁɛvkœʁ də pɛʁt]; 10 September 1788 – 5 August 1868), sometimes referred to as Boucher de Perthes (British English: BOO-shay də PAIRT), was a French archaeologist and antiquary notable for his discovery, in about 1830, of flint tools in the gravels of the Somme valley. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes is the 55th most popular archaeologist (down from 37th in 2019), the 3,097th most popular biography from France (down from 2,247th in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes ranks 55 out of 151. Before him are Robert Broom, Max von Oppenheim, Gustaf Kossinna, José Bonaparte, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, and Spyridon Marinatos. After him are Hormuzd Rassam, Neferkare Tereru, Meritites I, Colin Groves, Alan Gardiner, and Giuseppe Fiorelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1788, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes ranks 38. Before him are FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi, Franz Pforr, Rafael Urdaneta, and Francisco Balagtas. After him are Athanasios Diakos, Pavel Kiselyov, Juraj Haulik, Simon Sechter, Edward Sabine, and Spyridon Trikoupis. Among people deceased in 1868, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes ranks 36. Before him are Bhanubhakta Acharya, Carlo Matteucci, Emanuel Leutze, Peter Julian Eymard, Kit Carson, and Wilhelm Griesinger. After him are Dmitry Pisarev, Moritz Hauptmann, Giuseppe Abbati, Antonio Bertoloni, Eduard Friedrich Poeppig, and Adolphe d'Archiac.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes ranks 3,097 out of 6,770. Before him are Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (1320), Laurent Cassegrain (1629), Othon Friesz (1879), Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle (1710), Lucien Tesnière (1893), and André Caplet (1878). After him are Georges Lautner (1926), George Onslow (1784), Claude François de Malet (1754), Lucien Quélet (1832), Louise Weiss (1893), and Edita Piekha (1937).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In France

Among archaeologists born in France, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes ranks 7. Before him are Jean-François Champollion (1790), Alcide d'Orbigny (1802), Austen Henry Layard (1817), Paul Pelliot (1878), André Leroi-Gourhan (1911), and Henri Breuil (1877). After him are André Parrot (1901), Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet (1821), François Bordes (1919), Victor Loret (1859), Jean-François Séguier (1703), and Pierre Montet (1885).

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