ARCHAEOLOGIST

Karel Absolon

1877 - 1960

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Karel Absolon (16 June 1877 – 6 October 1960) was a Czech archaeologist, geographer, paleontologist, and speleologist. He was born in Boskovice. Absolon was the grandchild of paleontologist Jindřich Wankel. During his studies at Charles University in Prague he started with speleological research in the caves of Moravský kras (Moravian Karst) in the Moravia of what is now the Czech Republic. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karel Absolon is the 128th most popular archaeologist (down from 122nd in 2019), the 727th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 674th in 2019) and the most popular Czech Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Karel Absolon ranks 128 out of 151. Before him are Charles Dawson, Ekrem Akurgal, Ivan Borkovský, Nancy Dupree, Klaus Schmidt, and John Beazley. After him are Muhibbe Darga, Grahame Clark, Boris Piotrovsky, Paolo Orsi, James Prinsep, and Franz Weidenreich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Karel Absolon ranks 175. Before him are Malcolm Whitman, Joseph Stella, Jón Þorláksson, Leopold Skulski, Félix Paiva, and George Cornet. After him are Lloyd C. Douglas, Bill Robinson, Marsden Hartley, Ruurd Leegstra, Norman Pritchard, and Charilaos Vasilakos. Among people deceased in 1960, Karel Absolon ranks 203. Before him are Gregory Ratoff, Alfred E. Green, Harry Ferguson, Juan Jover, Francis Parker Yockey, and Juan Manuel Frutos. After him are Buddy Adler, Arthur Legat, Horace Bailey, Aneurin Bevan, Harry Blanchard, and J. H. C. Whitehead.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Karel Absolon ranks 727 out of 1,200. Before him are Franciszek Rychnowski (1850), Otto Hemele (1926), Jiří Hledík (1929), Eduard Novák (1946), Otokar Březina (1868), and Bohuslav Sobotka (1971). After him are František Štambachr (1953), Vlastimil Lada-Sázavský (1886), Jiří Feureisl (1931), Vilém Goppold von Lobsdorf (1869), Karolína Kurková (1984), and Jaroslav Kvapil (1868).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Czechia

Among archaeologists born in Czechia, Karel Absolon ranks 1. After him are Miroslav Verner (1941).

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