ARCHAEOLOGIST

Leo Frobenius

1873 - 1938

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Leo Viktor Frobenius (29 June 1873 – 9 August 1938) was a German self-taught ethnologist and archaeologist and a major figure in German ethnography. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leo Frobenius is the 29th most popular archaeologist (down from 25th in 2019), the 1,871st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,560th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Leo Frobenius ranks 29 out of 151Before him are Oscar Montelius, Khaemweset, Louis Leakey, Austen Henry Layard, Flinders Petrie, and Othniel Charles Marsh. After him are John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, Paul Pelliot, George Gaylord Simpson, Bogdan Filov, Robert Ballard, and André Leroi-Gourhan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Leo Frobenius ranks 63Before him are Viktor Chernov, Mehmet Akif Ersoy, Adolph Zukor, Theodor Körner, Ma Barker, and Melitta Bentz. After him are Édouard Claparède, Fritz Thyssen, Hans Berger, Valery Bryusov, Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg, and Moisei Uritsky. Among people deceased in 1938, Leo Frobenius ranks 66Before him are Ludwig Borchardt, Ödön von Horváth, Edmund Landau, Nicola Romeo, Leopold Godowsky, and Aleksandr Kuprin. After him are William McDougall, Emile Vandervelde, Francis Jammes, Axel Paulsen, Cao Kun, and Nikolai Krylenko.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Leo Frobenius ranks 1,871 out of 7,253Before him are Pierre Littbarski (1960), Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (1568), Sahra Wagenknecht (1969), Regino of Prüm (842), Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria (1752), and Count Palatine Joseph Charles of Sulzbach (1694). After him are Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg (1759), Golo Mann (1909), Louise Lehzen (1784), Tobias Mayer (1723), William Dieterle (1893), and Karl-Adolf Hollidt (1891).

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among archaeologists born in Germany, Leo Frobenius ranks 6Before him are Theodor Mommsen (1817), Heinrich Schliemann (1822), Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752), Isdal Woman (1940), and Karl Richard Lepsius (1810). After him are Ernst Curtius (1814), Ami Boué (1794), Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1853), Max von Oppenheim (1860), Adolf Furtwängler (1853), and Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1827).