ARCHAEOLOGIST

Paul Pelliot

1878 - 1945

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Paul Eugène Pelliot (28 May 1878 – 26 October 1945) was a French sinologist and Orientalist best known for his explorations of Central Asia and the Silk Road regions, and for his acquisition of many important Tibetan Empire-era manuscripts and Chinese texts at the Sachu printing center storage caves (Dunhuang), known as the Dunhuang manuscripts. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Pelliot is the 31st most popular archaeologist (down from 28th in 2019), the 2,024th most popular biography from France (down from 1,901st in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Paul Pelliot ranks 31 out of 151. Before him are Louis Leakey, Austen Henry Layard, Flinders Petrie, Othniel Charles Marsh, Leo Frobenius, and John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. After him are George Gaylord Simpson, Bogdan Filov, Robert Ballard, André Leroi-Gourhan, Ernst Curtius, and Ami Boué.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Paul Pelliot ranks 66. Before him are Paul Troost, James Oliver Curwood, Angelica Balabanoff, Louis Camille Maillard, Herbert Chapman, and Yosano Akiko. After him are Upton Sinclair, Edward Kasner, Hans Ledwinka, Franz Schreker, Lionel Barrymore, and Felix Bernstein. Among people deceased in 1945, Paul Pelliot ranks 129. Before him are Hajime Sugiyama, Seiichi Itō, Leonid Pasternak, Werner Ostendorff, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., and André Tardieu. After him are Mário de Andrade, Bogdan Filov, Wolfgang Lüth, Julius Dorpmüller, Dimitrije Ljotić, and Eduard Wirths.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Pelliot ranks 2,024 out of 6,770. Before him are Jacques Thibaud (1880), Isabella, Countess of Vertus (1348), André Marie Constant Duméril (1774), Paul Poiret (1879), Francis II, Duke of Lorraine (1572), and Jean Calas (1698). After him are Paul Andreu (1938), Emmanuel Petit (1970), Mahaut, Countess of Artois (1269), François de la Chaise (1624), Charles de Freycinet (1828), and Pierre Messmer (1916).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In France

Among archaeologists born in France, Paul Pelliot ranks 4. Before him are Jean-François Champollion (1790), Alcide d'Orbigny (1802), and Austen Henry Layard (1817). After him are André Leroi-Gourhan (1911), Henri Breuil (1877), Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788), André Parrot (1901), Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet (1821), François Bordes (1919), Victor Loret (1859), and Jean-François Séguier (1703).

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