19th-century archaeologists

The list 19th-century archaeologists includes Theodor Mommsen, Heinrich Schliemann, James E. Quibell, George Smith (assyriologist) and Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet. The list consists of 108 members and 11 sublists.

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19th-century Indian archaeologists
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19th-century American archaeologists
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- Charles Whittlesey (geologist)
19th-century Spanish archaeologists
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19th-century British archaeologists
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- George Edward Bonsor Saint Martin
- Ella Sophia Armitage
19th-century German archaeologists
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19th-century French archaeologists
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19th-century Dutch archaeologists
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- Jean Emile Humbert
- Caspar Reuvens
19th-century Polish archaeologists
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19th-century Irish archaeologists
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19th-century Italian archaeologists
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Howard Carter

British archaeologist and Egyptologist (1874–1939)

Overview: Howard Carter (9 May 1874 – 2 March 1939) was a English archaeologist and Egyptologist.

Date of birth: 9 May 1874

Date of death: 2 March 1939

Age: 64 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Anthropologist

Gender: Male

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Archaeologists from London 21T

Tutankhamun 25T

Commanders of the Order of the Nile 14T
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George Smith (assyriologist)

British assyriologist

Overview: George Smith (26 March 1840 – 19 August 1876) was a pioneering English Assyriologist who first discovered and translated the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest-known written works of literature ...

Date of birth: 26 March 1840

Date of death: 19 August 1876

Age: 36 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Anthropologist

Gender: Male

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British expatriates in the Ottoman Empire 21T

Victorian writers 171T

19th-century English writers 618T
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Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet

British politician

Overview: Major-General Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet GCB (5 April 1810 – 5 March 1895) was a British East India Company army officer, politician and Orientalist, sometimes described as the Father of ...

Date of birth: 5 April 1810

Date of death: 5 March 1895

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Scientist

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Presidents of the Royal Asiatic Society 32T

UK MPs 1857–59 677T

UK MPs 1865–68 717T
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Theodor Mommsen

German classical scholar and historian (1817–1903)

Overview: Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (30 November 1817 – 1 November 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. He was one of the greatest classicists ...

Date of birth: 30 November 1817

Date of death: 1 November 1903

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Male

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People educated at the Gymnasium Christianeum 9T

German male non-fiction writers 2,538T

Members of the 5th Reichstag of the German Empire 49T
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Heinrich Schliemann

German archaeologist

Overview: Heinrich Schliemann (6 January 1822 – 26 December 1890) was a German businessman and a pioneer in the field of archaeology. He was an advocate of the historicity of places mentioned in the works of Homer ...

Date of birth: 6 January 1822

Date of death: 26 December 1890

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Business

Gender: Male

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Archaeologists from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 7T

German expatriates in the Ottoman Empire 7T

German philhellenes 4T
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Charles Whittlesey (geologist)

American geologist

Overview: Charles Whittlesey (born Southington, Connecticut, 4 October 1808; died Cleveland, Ohio, 18 October 1886) was a soldier, geologist and an investigator of mounds relics of the United States. He is described ...

Date of birth: 4 October 1808

Date of death: 18 October 1886

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

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Scientists from Connecticut 12T

People from Southington, Connecticut 46T

Scientists from Ohio 32T
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Henry Adrian Churchill

British archaeologist and diplomat

Overview: Henry Adrian Churchill CB (16 September 1828 – 12 July 1886) was an archaeological explorer of ancient Mesopotamia and a British diplomat who stopped much of the commercial slavery in Zanzibar and helped ...

Date of birth: 1828

Date of death: 1886

Age: 57 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Anthropologist

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British expatriates in the Ottoman Empire 21T

19th-century translators 1,059T

English Assyriologists 30T
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Carl Robert Ehrström

Finnish archaeologist

Overview: Carl Robert Ehrström (1803–1881) was a Finnish medical doctor, bacteriologist and archaeologist.

Date of birth: 1803

Date of death: 1881

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: Finnish

Occupation: Scientist

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19th-century Finnish scientists 3T

Finnish microbiologists 1T

Finnish archaeologists 12T
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Valerios Stais

Greek archaeologist

Overview: Valerios Stais (Greek: Βαλέριος Στάης; b. Kythira 1857 – d. Athens 1923) was a Greek archaeologist. He was born in Kythera. He studied medicine and later archaeology. He became the director of the National ...

Date of birth: 1875

Date of death: 1923

Age: 47 (age at death)

Nationality: Greek

Occupation: Archaeologist

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Archaeologists from Athens 15T

People from Kythira 7T

Greek archaeologists 50T
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Johan David Åkerblad

Swedish diplomat and orientalist

Overview: Johan David Åkerblad (6 May 1763, Stockholm – 7 February 1819, Rome) was a Swedish diplomat and orientalist.

Date of birth: 6 May 1763

Date of death: 7 February 1819

Age: 55 (age at death)

Nationality: Swedish

Occupation: Linguist

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Linguists from Sweden 49T

Swedish Egyptologists 2T

Swedish orientalists 18T
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William Loftus

English archaeologist (1820–1858)

Overview: William Kennett Loftus (13 November 1820, Linton, Kent – 27 November 1858, at sea) was a British geologist, naturalist, explorer and archaeological excavator. He discovered the ancient Sumerian city of ...

Date of birth: 13 November 1820

Date of death: 27 November 1858

Age: 38 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Anthropologist

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Uruk 7T

Victorian writers 171T

19th-century English writers 618T
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James E. Quibell

British Egyptologist

Overview: James Edward Quibell (11 November 1867 – 5 June 1935) was a British Egyptologist.

Date of birth: 11 November 1867

Date of death: 5 June 1935

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Anthropologist

Gender: Male

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19th-century English male writers 472T

19th-century British male writers 668T

English male non-fiction writers 1,748T
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Alexander Cunningham

British Army general

Overview: Major General Sir Alexander Cunningham KCIE CSI (23 January 1814 – 28 November 1893) was a British army engineer with the Bengal Engineer Group who later took an interest in the history and archaeology ...

Date of birth: 23 January 1814

Date of death: 28 November 1893

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: Pakistani

Occupation: Anthropologist

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Directors General of the Archaeological Survey of India 20T

Alumni of Addiscombe Military Seminary 76T

People educated at Christ's Hospital 244T
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Katherine Routledge

British archaeologist

Overview: Katherine Maria Routledge (), née Pease (11 August 1866 – 13 December 1935), was an English archaeologist and anthropologist who, in 1914, initiated and carried out much of the first true survey of Easter ...

Date of birth: 11 August 1866

Date of death: 13 December 1935

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Anthropologist

Gender: Female

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British women archaeologists 189T

20th-century archaeologists 857T

Pease family 31T
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Giovanni Battista Belzoni

Italian antiquarian

Overview: Giovanni Battista Belzoni (5 November 1778 – 3 December 1823), sometimes known as The Great Belzoni, was a prolific Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. He is known for his ...

Date of birth: 15 November 1778

Date of death: 3 December 1824

Age: 46 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Explorer

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19th-century antiquarians 106T

Venetian explorers 4T

Italian antiquarians 34T
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Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau

French orientalist and archaeologist (1846–1923)

Overview: Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau (19 February 1846 – 15 February 1923) was a noted French Orientalist and archaeologist.

Date of birth: 19 February 1846

Date of death: 15 February 1923

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Archaeologist

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Phoenician-punic studies 14T

Biblical archaeologists 24T

Historical geographers 56T
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Paul-Émile Botta

French archaeologist

Overview: Paul-Émile Botta (6 December 1802 – 29 March 1870) was an Italian-born French scientist who served as Consul in Mosul (then in the Ottoman Empire, now in Iraq) from 1842, and who discovered the ruins of ...

Date of birth: 6 December 1802

Date of death: 29 March 1870

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Diplomat

Gender: Male

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Diplomats from Turin 10T

Scientists from Turin 30T

French male non-fiction writers 2,066T
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William Mitchell Ramsay

British academic

Overview: Sir William Mitchell Ramsay, FBA (15 March 1851 – 20 April 1939) was a Scottish archaeologist and New Testament scholar. By his death in 1939 he had become the foremost authority of his day on the ...

Date of birth: 1851

Date of death: 1939

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Historian

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Victoria Medal recipients 65T

British historians of religion 76T

Lincoln Professors of Classical Archaeology and Art 6T
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John Marshall (archaeologist)

British archaeologist (1876–1958)

Overview: Sir John Hubert Marshall CIE FBA (19 March 1876, Chester, England – 17 August 1958, Guildford, England) was the Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India from 1902 to 1928. He oversaw ...

Date of birth: 19 March 1876

Date of death: 17 August 1958

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Anthropologist

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British Sindhologists 1T

People associated with the Indus Valley Civilisation 16T

Archaeologists of South Asia 7T
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Hormuzd Rassam

Iraqi archaeologist

Overview: Hormuzd Rassam (Arabic: هرمز رسام‎; Syriac: ܗܪܡܙܕ ܪܣܐܡ‎; 1826 – 16 September 1910), was an Iraqi-Assyrian Assyriologist who made a number of important archaeological discoveries from ...

Date of birth: 1826

Date of death: 16 September 1910

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: Iraqi

Occupation: Historian

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19th-century Ottoman writers 87T

British people of Assyrian descent 4T

Iraqi Oriental Orthodox Christians 8T