ANTHROPOLOGIST

Wilhelm Schmidt

1868 - 1954

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Wilhelm Schmidt (February 16, 1868 — February 10, 1954) was a German-Austrian Catholic priest, linguist and ethnologist. He presided over the Fourth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences that was held at Vienna in 1952. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Schmidt is the 22nd most popular anthropologist (up from 31st in 2019), the 1,851st most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,417th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Wilhelm Schmidt ranks 22 out of 93. Before him are Knud Rasmussen, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Mary Leakey, Mary Douglas, and Victor Turner. After him are Marvin Harris, Raymond Dart, Andrey Korotayev, Edward T. Hall, Jacques de Morgan, and Ann Dunham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Wilhelm Schmidt ranks 71. Before him are Noe Zhordania, Empress Dowager Longyu, Kantarō Suzuki, Ahmed Shawqi, Henry Bergman, and James Brendan Connolly. After him are Francis Jammes, Émile Chartier, Ernst Linder, Fakhri Pasha, Infanta Blanca of Spain, and Lin Sen. Among people deceased in 1954, Wilhelm Schmidt ranks 45. Before him are Fritz London, Princess Margaret of Prussia, Marianne Weber, Günther Quandt, Stig Dagerman, and Viktor Abakumov. After him are Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Franz Josef Popp, Oscar Straus, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and Lionel Barrymore.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Schmidt ranks 1,851 out of 7,253. Before him are Gustav von Schmoller (1838), Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824), Gisela of Swabia (990), Sophie, Princess of Albania (1885), Augustin Bea (1881), and Gregor Gysi (1948). After him are Armin Laschet (1961), Frederick of Saxony (1474), Bastian Schweinsteiger (1984), Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1772), Melitta Bentz (1873), and Princess Feodora of Leiningen (1807).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Germany

Among anthropologists born in Germany, Wilhelm Schmidt ranks 3. Before him are Franz Boas (1858), and Birutė Galdikas (1946). After him are Fredrik Barth (1928), Adolf Bernhard Meyer (1840), Johann Carl Fuhlrott (1803), and Jean Malaurie (1922).

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