BIOLOGIST

Alexander Kovalevsky

1840 - 1901

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Alexander Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ону́фриевич Ковале́вский; 7 November 1840 – 1901) was a Russian embryologist, who studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg and became professor at the University of St Petersburg. He was the brother of the paleontologist Vladimir Kovalevsky, and the brother-in-law of the mathematician Sofya Kovalevskaya. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Kovalevsky has received more than 27,939 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Alexander Kovalevsky is the 473rd most popular biologist (down from 468th in 2019), the 87th most popular biography from Latvia (up from 99th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Latvian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alexander Kovalevsky ranks 473 out of 1,097. Before him are Camille Guérin, W. D. Hamilton, Aldo Leopold, Eduard Friedrich Eversmann, Agostino Bassi, and Anders Dahl. After him are Jacques Loeb, Dmitry Belyayev, Henri Ernest Baillon, Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, Karl Gegenbaur, and Heinrich Anton de Bary.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Alexander Kovalevsky ranks 54. Before him are Dmitry Pisarev, Friedrich Kohlrausch, Abraham Goldfaden, Titu Maiorescu, Helena Modjeska, and Francišak Bahuševič. After him are Hermann Goetz, Otto Wilhelm Thomé, Émile Lemoine, Marko Kropyvnytskyi, Victorino de la Plaza, and Angelo de Gubernatis. Among people deceased in 1901, Alexander Kovalevsky ranks 51. Before him are Cornelius Gurlitt, Jacob Georg Agardh, Johannes Schmidt, Jules Barbier, Wojciech Gerson, and Ghevont Alishan. After him are Herman Grimm, Arvid Posse, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, Peter Benoit, Víctor Balaguer i Cirera, and Václav Brožík.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Alexander Kovalevsky ranks 87 out of 323. Before him are Arkady Raikin (1911), Yury Tynyanov (1894), Jānis Rudzutaks (1887), Gustavs Zemgals (1871), Jānis Balodis (1881), and Lina Stern (1878). After him are Janis Rozentāls (1866), Heinz Christian Pander (1794), Jacob W. Davis (1831), Anatolijs Gorbunovs (1942), Otto August Rosenberger (1800), and Karl Davydov (1838).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Latvia

Among biologists born in Latvia, Alexander Kovalevsky ranks 2. Before him are Karl Eichwald (1795). After him are Heinz Christian Pander (1794), Johann Gerhard König (1728), Georg August Schweinfurth (1836), and Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter (1809).

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