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Joseph Orbeli

1887 - 1961

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Joseph Orbeli (Armenian: Հովսեփ Աբգարի Օրբելի, Hovsep Abgari Orbeli; Russian: Иосиф Абгарович Орбели, romanized: Iosif Abgarovich Orbeli; 20 March (O.S. 8 March) 1887 – 2 February 1961) was a Soviet-Armenian orientalist, public figure and academician who specialized in medieval history of Transcaucasia and administered the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad from 1934 to 1951. He was the founder and first president of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences (1943–47). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Orbeli is the 83rd most popular archaeologist (down from 71st in 2019), the 167th most popular biography from Georgia (down from 157th in 2019) and the most popular Georgian Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Joseph Orbeli ranks 83 out of 151. Before him are Margaret Murray, Dorothy Garrod, Halet Çambel, Charles W. Gilmore, William F. Albright, and Jean-François Séguier. After him are Hugo Winckler, Edward Robinson, Kathleen Kenyon, Ernst Herzfeld, Pierre Montet, and Israel Finkelstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Joseph Orbeli ranks 178. Before him are Prince Gustav of Denmark, Peter Arshinov, Giorgio Zampori, Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt, Oskar Luts, and Alan Cunningham. After him are Antonio Moreno, Reginald Owen, Thoralf Skolem, Hranush Arshagyan, Arcadio Larraona Saralegui, and Joseph Lamb. Among people deceased in 1961, Joseph Orbeli ranks 119. Before him are Charles D. B. King, Barry Fitzgerald, Platt Adams, Belinda Lee, Nadezhda Udaltsova, and Grigory Levenfish. After him are Géza von Bolváry, Richmond K. Turner, James Thurber, Ruth Fischer, Kiyotake Kawaguchi, and Giulio Cabianca.

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In Georgia

Among people born in Georgia, Joseph Orbeli ranks 167 out of 406. Before him are Mikael Tariverdiev (1931), Boris Paichadze (1915), Haykanoush Danielyan (1893), Edvard Mirzoyan (1921), Davit Guramishvili (1705), and Givi Javakhishvili (1912). After him are Fyodor Yurchikhin (1959), Meliton Balanchivadze (1862), Mary Eristavi (1888), Badri Patarkatsishvili (1955), Lado Gudiashvili (1896), and David IX of Georgia (1400).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Georgia

Among archaeologists born in Georgia, Joseph Orbeli ranks 1. 

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