Birthdate: December 29, 1788
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Copenhagen, Denmark
Died: May 21, 1865
Christian Jürgensen Thomsen pioneered early archaeological techniques and transformed the study of European antiquity. At the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, he organized and classified antiquities chronologically using the three-age system. Thomsen further refined this system by establishing evidence-based divisions of prehistory into distinct periods. Additionally, he authored one of the initial systematic treatises on gold bracteates of the Migration period, focusing on connections between stylistic evolution, decoration, and context. Thomsen’s groundbreaking work laid the groundwork for modern archaeological methods.
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