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Stith Thompson

1885 - 1976

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Stith Thompson (March 7, 1885 – January 10, 1976) was an American folklorist: he has been described as "America's most important folklorist". He is the "Thompson" of the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index, which indexes folktales by type, and the author of the Motif-Index of Folk-Literature, a resource for folklorists that indexes motifs, granular elements of folklore. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stith Thompson is the 111th most popular archaeologist (up from 121st in 2019), the 7,623rd most popular biography from United States (up from 7,898th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Stith Thompson ranks 111 out of 151. Before him are John Evans, Leon Kozłowski, E. A. Wallis Budge, Akurgal, Mortimer Wheeler, and Phillip V. Tobias. After him are José Leite de Vasconcelos, Désiré Charnay, Davidson Black, Lewis Binford, Blaga Aleksova, and Carl Blegen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Stith Thompson ranks 208. Before him are Fritz von Unruh, Mae Murray, Stevan Hristić, Urani Rumbo, Georges Passerieu, and Margaret Harwood. After him are Miroslav Kraljević, Anita Rée, María Grever, Malcolm Campbell, Roland Dorgelès, and Tommaso Costantino. Among people deceased in 1976, Stith Thompson ranks 194. Before him are Abram Room, Jimmy Reed, Ritwik Ghatak, Alexander Brailowsky, Hugo Wieslander, and Mortimer Wheeler. After him are Jens Bjørneboe, Carl Benjamin Boyer, Narve Bonna, Markus Reiner, Tarab Abdul Hadi, and Anna Kéthly.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stith Thompson ranks 7,625 out of 20,380. Before him are Clarence Williams III (1939), Peter Hermann (1967), Agnes Ayres (1898), Louella Parsons (1881), Frank Norris (1870), and Charles Francis Hall (1821). After him are Alan Hovhaness (1911), Martin Klebba (1969), Alvin M. Weinberg (1915), Joe Kennedy III (1980), Sidney Johnson (1877), and Margaret O'Brien (1937).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United States

Among archaeologists born in United States, Stith Thompson ranks 11. Before him are James Henry Breasted (1865), Donald Johanson (1943), Sylvanus Morley (1883), Charles W. Gilmore (1874), Edward Robinson (1794), and Robert T. Bakker (1945). After him are Lewis Binford (1932), Carl Blegen (1887), Michael D. Coe (1929), Nancy Dupree (1927), J. P. Mallory (1945), and Robert John Braidwood (1907).

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