ARCHAEOLOGIST

Spyridon Marinatos

1901 - 1974

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Spyridon Marinatos (Greek: Σπυρίδων Μαρινάτος; 17 November [O.S. 4 November] 1901 – 1 October 1974) was a Greek archaeologist who specialised in the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations of the Aegean Bronze Age. He is best known for the excavation of the Minoan site of Akrotiri on Thera, which he conducted between 1967 and 1974. He received several honours in Greece and abroad, and was considered one of the most important Greek archaeologists of his day. A native of Kephallonia, Marinatos was educated at the University of Athens, the Friedrich Wilhelms University of Berlin, and the University of Halle. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Spyridon Marinatos is the 54th most popular archaeologist (up from 112th in 2019), the 537th most popular biography from Greece (up from 772nd in 2019) and the most popular Greek Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Spyridon Marinatos ranks 54 out of 151. Before him are Johan David Åkerblad, Robert Broom, Max von Oppenheim, Gustaf Kossinna, José Bonaparte, and Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola. After him are Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, Hormuzd Rassam, Neferkare Tereru, Meritites I, Colin Groves, and Alan Gardiner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Spyridon Marinatos ranks 143. Before him are Salchak Toka, Jean Guitton, Mario Scelba, Umberto Caligaris, Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, and Ismail al-Azhari. After him are Mária Mednyánszky, Claude Choules, Ramón Serrano Suñer, Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt, Otto Ambros, and Ernest Nagel. Among people deceased in 1974, Spyridon Marinatos ranks 108. Before him are Bert Patenaude, Messali Hadj, Anfilogino Guarisi, Lev Oborin, Antanas Sniečkus, and Ramdhari Singh Dinkar. After him are Yekaterina Furtseva, Abraham Robinson, Bud Abbott, Sucheta Kriplani, Emil Väre, and Earl Warren.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Spyridon Marinatos ranks 537 out of 1,024. Before him are Georgios Tsolakoglou (1886), Teucer (null), Philochorus (-340), Eugenios Voulgaris (1716), John Aniston (1933), and Arethas of Caesarea (860). After him are Acusilaus (-600), John II Orsini (1300), Alexandros Nikolopoulos (1875), Anthimus VII of Constantinople (1827), Timotheus (-400), and Peisander (-500).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Greece

Among archaeologists born in Greece, Spyridon Marinatos ranks 1. 

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