ARCHAEOLOGIST

Max von Oppenheim

1860 - 1946

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Baron Max von Oppenheim (15 July 1860 – 17 November 1946) was a German lawyer, diplomat, ancient historian, pan-Islamist and archaeologist. He was a member of the Oppenheim banking dynasty. Abandoning his career in diplomacy, he discovered the site of Tell Halaf in 1899 and conducted excavations there in 1911–13 and again in 1927–29. Bringing many of his finds to Berlin, he exhibited them in a private museum (The Tell Halaf Museum) in 1931. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Max von Oppenheim is the 50th most popular archaeologist (up from 56th in 2019), the 2,929th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,096th in 2019) and the 10th most popular German Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Max von Oppenheim ranks 50 out of 151. Before him are Yuri Knorozov, Johan Gunnar Andersson, Max Mallowan, James Henry Breasted, Johan David Åkerblad, and Robert Broom. After him are Gustaf Kossinna, José Bonaparte, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, Spyridon Marinatos, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, and Hormuzd Rassam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Max von Oppenheim ranks 73. Before him are Oda Krohg, Michel Zevaco, Simon Dubnow, Katō Takaaki, Manuel Teixeira Gomes, and André Prévost. After him are Emil von Reznicek, Hugo Preuß, Edward MacDowell, William Bates, Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas, and Johannes Thiele. Among people deceased in 1946, Max von Oppenheim ranks 104. Before him are Bo Gu, Max Pauly, Harry Hopkins, Elisabeth Becker, Jack Johnson, and Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont. After him are Madan Mohan Malaviya, William Joyce, Edmund Glaise-Horstenau, Charles Despiau, Heinrich George, and Matteo Bartoli.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max von Oppenheim ranks 2,931 out of 7,253. Before him are Johannes Popitz (1884), Gottfried Kirch (1639), August Leopold Crelle (1780), Johannes Schmidt (1843), Nico Rosberg (1985), and Karl Weyprecht (1838). After him are Wolfgang Lotz (1921), Herbert Erhardt (1930), Auguste von Harrach (1800), Paul Hermann (1646), Arno Schmidt (1914), and Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (1599).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among archaeologists born in Germany, Max von Oppenheim ranks 10. Before him are Isdal Woman (1940), Karl Richard Lepsius (1810), Leo Frobenius (1873), Ernst Curtius (1814), Ami Boué (1794), and Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1853). After him are Adolf Furtwängler (1853), Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1827), Johann Andreas Wagner (1797), Halet Çambel (1916), Hugo Winckler (1863), and Ernst Herzfeld (1879).

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