ARCHAEOLOGIST

Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola

1831 - 1888

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Don Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola y Pedrueca or Marcelino de Sautuola was a Spanish jurist and amateur archaeologist who owned the land where the Altamira cave was found. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola is the 53rd most popular archaeologist (down from 47th in 2019), the 967th most popular biography from Spain (down from 789th in 2019) and the most popular Spanish Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola ranks 53 out of 151Before him are James Henry Breasted, Johan David Åkerblad, Robert Broom, Max von Oppenheim, Gustaf Kossinna, and José Bonaparte. After him are Spyridon Marinatos, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, Hormuzd Rassam, Neferkare Tereru, Meritites I, and Colin Groves.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola ranks 56Before him are Prince August, Duke of Dalarna, Konstantin Leontiev, Fyodor Bredikhin, David Edward Hughes, Mary Mapes Dodge, and Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay. After him are Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, Johann von Herbeck, Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Paolo Mantegazza, Fatima Sheikh, and Wojciech Gerson. Among people deceased in 1888, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola ranks 51Before him are Heinrich Anton de Bary, Philip Sheridan, Henri Herz, Mikhail Loris-Melikov, Asa Gray, and Samson Raphael Hirsch. After him are Laurence Oliphant, Stephen Heller, Raffi, Victoria Benedictsson, Carl Christian Hall, and Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola ranks 967 out of 3,355Before him are María Blanchard (1881), Antonio de Pereda (1611), Vicente Juan Masip (1505), Lucía Sánchez Saornil (1895), Najwa Nimri (1972), and Manuel Fraga (1922). After him are Agustina de Aragón (1786), Francisco Bayeu y Subías (1734), Juan Bautista de Toledo (1515), Juan Yagüe (1891), Joan Alcover (1854), and Francisco López de Gómara (1511).

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Spain

Among archaeologists born in Spain, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola ranks 1