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William F. Albright

1891 - 1971

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William Foxwell Albright (May 24, 1891 – September 19, 1971) was an American archaeologist, biblical scholar, philologist, and expert on ceramics. He is considered "one of the twentieth century's most influential American biblical scholars," having become known to the public in 1948 for his role in the authentication of the Dead Sea Scrolls. He was a leading theorist and practitioner of biblical archaeology, and is regarded as the founder of the biblical archaeology movement. Albright served as the W. W. Spence Professor of Semitic Languages at Johns Hopkins University from 1930 to 1958 and was the Director of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem for several terms between 1922 and 1936. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William F. Albright is the 81st most popular archaeologist (down from 74th in 2019), the 75th most popular biography from Chile (down from 71st in 2019) and the most popular Chilean Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, William F. Albright ranks 81 out of 151. Before him are Sylvanus Morley, Victor Loret, Margaret Murray, Dorothy Garrod, Halet Çambel, and Charles W. Gilmore. After him are Jean-François Séguier, Joseph Orbeli, Hugo Winckler, Edward Robinson, Kathleen Kenyon, and Ernst Herzfeld.

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Among people born in 1891, William F. Albright ranks 185. Before him are David Sarnoff, Hans von Funck, Edmund Goulding, George Marshall, Alfred Neubauer, and Mariano Ospina Pérez. After him are Ferdinand Bruckner, Alfred Sturtevant, André Labatut, Adolf Busch, Philipp Etter, and William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim. Among people deceased in 1971, William F. Albright ranks 139. Before him are David Sarnoff, Heinz Hopf, Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev, Erich Abraham, Jo Cals, and Jean-Pierre Monseré. After him are Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, Guillermo León Valencia, Frank Rosenblatt, Richard Montague, Simon Vestdijk, and Bengt Ekerot.

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In Chile

Among people born in Chile, William F. Albright ranks 75 out of 321. Before him are Alberto Hurtado (1901), Pedro Montt (1849), José Joaquín Pérez (1801), Francisco Coloane (1910), Francisco Antonio Pinto (1785), and Víctor Morales (1905). After him are Domingo Santa María (1825), Luis Ayala (1932), Guillermo Billinghurst (1851), Jorge Montt (1845), Chris Watson (1867), and Casimiro Torres (1906).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Chile

Among archaeologists born in Chile, William F. Albright ranks 1. 

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