ANTHROPOLOGIST

Adolf Bernhard Meyer

1840 - 1911

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Adolf Bernhard Meyer (11 October 1840, Hamburg – 22 August 1911, Dresden) was a German anthropologist, ornithologist, entomologist, and herpetologist. He served for nearly thirty years as director of the Königlich Zoologisches und Anthropologisch-Ethnographisches Museum (now the natural history museum or Museum für Tierkunde Dresden) in Dresden. He worked on comparative anatomy and appreciated the ideas of evolution, and influenced many German scientists by translating into German the 1858 papers by Darwin and Wallace which first proposed evolution by natural selection. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolf Bernhard Meyer has received more than 42,883 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Adolf Bernhard Meyer is the 83rd most popular anthropologist (down from 76th in 2019), the 5,267th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,528th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Adolf Bernhard Meyer ranks 83 out of 93. Before him are Eric Wolf, Marcellin Boule, Ashley Montagu, Carleton S. Coon, Françoise Héritier, and Marilyn Strathern. After him are Hugh Falconer, W. H. R. Rivers, Grete Mostny, Napoleon Chagnon, Eugenie Scott, and Edwin H. Colbert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Adolf Bernhard Meyer ranks 93. Before him are Édouard Vaillant, Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie, Jakub Arbes, American Horse, Richard Knill Freeman, and Sophia Jex-Blake. After him are Isabella Stewart Gardner, John Addington Symonds, and John Stainer. Among people deceased in 1911, Adolf Bernhard Meyer ranks 86. Before him are Marc Delafontaine, Pedro Paterno, Albert Ladenburg, Georg Hilmar, Morten Müller, and Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah. After him are Merritt Giffin, Frances Harper, John Douglas, and Sam Dickson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf Bernhard Meyer ranks 5,267 out of 7,253. Before him are Helmut Rix (1926), Max Schöne (1880), Sabine Moussier (1966), Peter Zadek (1926), Volker Strassen (1936), and Rolf Danneberg (1953). After him are Rudolf Schlechter (1872), Ewald Balser (1898), Johann Mühlegg (1970), Mady Rahl (1915), Michael Rensing (1984), and Danna García (1978).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Germany

Among anthropologists born in Germany, Adolf Bernhard Meyer ranks 7. Before him are Franz Boas (1858), Fredrik Barth (1928), Wilhelm Schmidt (1868), Jean Malaurie (1922), Birutė Galdikas (1946), and Johann Carl Fuhlrott (1803).

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