CHEMIST

Andreas Libavius

1555 - 1616

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Andreas Libavius or Andrew Libavius was born in Halle, Germany c. 1550 and died in July 1616. Libavius was a renaissance man who spent time as a professor at the University of Jena teaching history and poetry. After which he became a physician at the Gymnasium in Rothenburg and later founded the Gymnasium at Coburg. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andreas Libavius has received more than 91,783 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Andreas Libavius is the 253rd most popular chemist (up from 286th in 2019), the 1,336th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,664th in 2019) and the 46th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Andreas Libavius ranks 253 out of 602. Before him are Ida Noddack, Sidney Altman, Thomas A. Steitz, Joseph L. Goldstein, Bernard Courtois, and Walter Gilbert. After him are Michael Polanyi, Kikunae Ikeda, Arieh Warshel, Dudley R. Herschbach, Emil Abderhalden, and Michael Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1555, Andreas Libavius ranks 6. Before him are Francis, Duke of Anjou, Ludovico Carracci, Edward Kelley, Naresuan, and Konishi Yukinaga. After him are François de Malherbe, Cesare Ripa, Dong Qichang, Johann Arndt, Louise de Coligny, and Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon. Among people deceased in 1616, Andreas Libavius ranks 8. Before him are Miguel de Cervantes, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Vincenzo Scamozzi, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Maria Anna of Bavaria, and Jacob Le Maire. After him are John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Simeon Bekbulatovich, Magdalene of Brandenburg, Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt, Johannes Fabricius, and Kuzma Minin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Andreas Libavius ranks 1,336 out of 7,253. Before him are Lina Heydrich (1911), Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Eutin (1673), Henry of Latvia (1187), Anna Maria of the Palatinate (1561), Sepp Piontek (1940), and Christoph Cellarius (1638). After him are Lucius Antonius Saturninus (20), Johann Jacob Schweppe (1740), Karl Löwith (1897), Fritz Bayerlein (1899), Fancy (1946), and Princess Auguste of Bavaria (1877).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Andreas Libavius ranks 46. Before him are Hermann Kolbe (1818), Gerhard Herzberg (1904), Friedrich Sertürner (1783), Franz Karl Achard (1753), Hartmut Michel (1948), and Henri Victor Regnault (1810). After him are Feodor Lynen (1911), Joachim Sauer (1949), Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799), Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (1795), Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709), and John Polanyi (1929).

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