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Abraham Gotthelf Kästner

1719 - 1800

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Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (27 September 1719 – 20 June 1800) was a German mathematician and epigrammatist. He was known in his professional life for writing textbooks and compiling encyclopedias rather than for original research. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was one of his doctoral students, and admired the man greatly. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abraham Gotthelf Kästner has received more than 58,799 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Abraham Gotthelf Kästner is the 521st most popular mathematician (down from 449th in 2019), the 3,318th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,749th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Abraham Gotthelf Kästner ranks 521 out of 823Before him are Campanus of Novara, Martin Ohm, Egon Pearson, Ahmad ibn Yusuf, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, and Abraham Robinson. After him are Terence Tao, Gerd Faltings, Maria Angela Ardinghelli, Carl Adam Petri, Ulisse Dini, and René de Saussure.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1719, Abraham Gotthelf Kästner ranks 12Before him are Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, Xenia of Saint Petersburg, Jacques Cazotte, Gottfried Achenwall, Prince Georg Ludwig of Holstein-Gottorp, and Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, 10th Count of Aranda. After him are Pierre Poivre, Christian Mayer, Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, Thomas Gage, Michel-Jean Sedaine, and Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani. Among people deceased in 1800, Abraham Gotthelf Kästner ranks 23Before him are Jean-Étienne Championnet, Michał Kazimierz Ogiński, Joseph de Guignes, Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle, Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, and William Cowper. After him are Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, Friedrich Gilly, Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, Michael Denis, Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe, and Jesse Ramsden.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Abraham Gotthelf Kästner ranks 3,318 out of 6,142Before him are Andreas, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1943), John II, Duke of Cleves (1458), Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721), Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1581), Nick Heidfeld (1977), and Prince Aribert of Anhalt (1866). After him are Otto Lesser (1830), Walter Burkert (1931), Heike Makatsch (1971), Reinhard Marx (1953), Greta Schröder (1891), and John Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1677).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Abraham Gotthelf Kästner ranks 62Before him are Friedrich Hirzebruch (1927), Adam Ries (1492), Johann Friedrich Pfaff (1765), Heinrich Martin Weber (1842), Wilhelm Jordan (1842), and Martin Ohm (1792). After him are Gerd Faltings (1954), Carl Adam Petri (1926), Max Noether (1921), August Leopold Crelle (1780), Max August Zorn (1906), and Hillel Furstenberg (1935).