ANTHROPOLOGIST

Jean Malaurie

1922 - 2024

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Jean Malaurie (22 December 1922 – 5 February 2024) was a French cultural anthropologist, explorer, geographer, physicist, and writer. He and Kutsikitsoq, an Inuk, were the first two men to reach the North Geomagnetic Pole on 29 May 1951. Malaurie was a director of studies at the School for advanced studies in social sciences (EHESS) and director and founder of the Terre Humaine collection published by Plon in which features his Last Kings of Thule (1955), translated into twenty-three languages and remaining the most widely distributed work on the Inuit. A defender of the rights of Arctic minorities, threatened by the industrial development of the Far North, Jean Malaurie became a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Arctic polar issues. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Malaurie is the 80th most popular anthropologist (down from 37th in 2019), the 4,988th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,791st in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Jean Malaurie ranks 80 out of 93. Before him are Julian Steward, Melville J. Herskovits, Hugh Falconer, Yves Coppens, Vladimir Bogoraz, and George Murdock. After him are Eric Wolf, Françoise Héritier, Grete Mostny, Marcellin Boule, Marilyn Strathern, and Carleton S. Coon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Jean Malaurie ranks 344. Before him are Kathryn Grayson, Milton H. Greene, María Luisa Bemberg, Ria Baran, Per Olof Sundman, and Margaret Leighton. After him are Jacques Pollet, André Buffière, Musa Gareyev, Héctor Rossetto, Carl Amery, and Georgy Adelson-Velsky. Among people deceased in 2024, Jean Malaurie ranks 388. Before him are Steve Lawrence, Robert H. Dennard, Jon Landau, Comunardo Niccolai, Mitzi Gaynor, and Klaus Töpfer. After him are Joanne Chory, Marlena Shaw, Robert Coover, Bob Bryar, Phelekezela Mphoko, and Maxine Singer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jean Malaurie ranks 4,991 out of 7,253. Before him are Werner Haas (1927), Rosemarie Trockel (1952), Walter Schröder (1932), Frank Kugler (1879), Walter Lübcke (1953), and Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz (1904). After him are Anni Holdmann (1900), Fritz Spengler (1908), Willi Holdorf (1940), Max Bodenstein (1871), Hans-Georg Aschenbach (1951), and Eike Immel (1960).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Germany

Among anthropologists born in Germany, Jean Malaurie ranks 7. Before him are Franz Boas (1858), Birutė Galdikas (1946), Wilhelm Schmidt (1868), Fredrik Barth (1928), Adolf Bernhard Meyer (1840), and Johann Carl Fuhlrott (1803).

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