ANTHROPOLOGIST

Paul Broca

1824 - 1880

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Paul Pierre Broca (, also UK: , US: , French: [pɔl bʁɔka]; 28 June 1824 – 9 July 1880) was a French physician, anatomist and anthropologist. He is best known for his research on Broca's area, a region of the frontal lobe that is named after him. Broca's area is involved with language. His work revealed that the brains of patients with aphasia contained lesions in a particular part of the cortex, in the left frontal region. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Broca is the 11th most popular anthropologist (down from 7th in 2019), the 792nd most popular biography from France (down from 679th in 2019) and the most popular French Anthropologist.

Paul Broca is most famous for his discovery of Broca's area, a region of the brain that is responsible for speech production.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Paul Broca ranks 11 out of 93. Before him are Edward Burnett Tylor, Lewis H. Morgan, A. L. Kroeber, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Franz Boas. After him are Gregory Bateson, Clifford Geertz, Eugène Dubois, Birutė Galdikas, Knud Rasmussen, and Alfred Radcliffe-Brown.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Paul Broca ranks 11. Before him are Gustav Kirchhoff, Stonewall Jackson, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Maria Alexandrovna, Eugène Boudin, and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. After him are Dayananda Saraswati, Pierre Janssen, Carl Reinecke, Wilkie Collins, Marie Duplessis, and William Huggins. Among people deceased in 1880, Paul Broca ranks 7. Before him are Gustave Flaubert, Jacques Offenbach, William Lassell, Maria Alexandrovna, Henryk Wieniawski, and George Eliot. After him are Emperor Norton, Michel Chasles, Ned Kelly, Anselm Feuerbach, James Craig Watson, and Nell Arthur.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Broca ranks 792 out of 6,770. Before him are Michel Legrand (1932), Hubert de Givenchy (1927), Mary of Guise (1515), Madame Roland (1754), Louis de Montfort (1673), and Albert I, Prince of Monaco (1848). After him are Charles III, Duke of Bourbon (1490), Margaret of Provence (1221), Louis II of Anjou (1377), Charles II of Navarre (1332), Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758), and Charles, Duke of Vendôme (1489).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In France

Among anthropologists born in France, Paul Broca ranks 1. After him are Jacques de Morgan (1857), Marc Augé (1935), Pierre Clastres (1934), Marcel Griaule (1898), Georges Vacher de Lapouge (1854), Alfred Sauvy (1898), Maurice Godelier (1934), Georges Balandier (1920), Philippe Descola (1949), Yves Coppens (1934), and Françoise Héritier (1933).

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