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Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae

Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae (14 March 1821 – 15 August 1885) was a Danish archaeologist, historian and politician, who was the second director of the National Museum of Denmark (1865–1874).

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He played a key role in the foundation of scientific archaeology. Worsaae was the first to excavate and use stratigraphy to prove C. J. Thomsen's sequence of the Three-age system: Stone, Bronze, Iron. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae has received more than 50,270 page views.

His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae is the 80th most popular archaeologist (down from 60th in 2019), the 404th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 322nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Danish Archaeologist.