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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 84,814 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Andreas Libavius is the 286th most popular chemist (down from 279th in 2019), the 1,664th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,598th in 2019) and the 51st most popular German Chemist.

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.03

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Andreas Libavius ranks 286 out of 509. Before him are Bernard Courtois, Richard J. Roberts, S. P. L. Sørensen, Ryōji Noyori, Hartmut Michel, and Georg Brandt. After him are William C. Campbell, Max Joseph von Pettenkofer, Rasmus Bartholin, Théophile-Jules Pelouze, Rudolph A. Marcus, and Leopold Gmelin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1555, Andreas Libavius ranks 10. Before him are Naresuan, Cesare Ripa, François de Malherbe, Johann Arndt, Louise de Coligny, and Konishi Yukinaga. After him are Dong Qichang, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon, Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, Moderata Fonte, and Giovanni Antonio Magini. Among people deceased in 1616, Andreas Libavius ranks 10. Before him are Maria Anna of Bavaria, Vincenzo Scamozzi, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Jacob Le Maire, Simeon Bekbulatovich, and John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp. After him are Magdalene of Brandenburg, Johannes Fabricius, Kuzma Minin, Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt, Tang Xianzu, and Matthias de l'Obel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Andreas Libavius ranks 1,664 out of 6,142. Before him are Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824), Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia (1730), Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670), Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick (1714), Philip Johan von Strahlenberg (1676), and Ernst Neufert (1900). After him are Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse (1906), Hans Leo Hassler (1564), Gustav von Schmoller (1838), Lothar von Trotha (1848), Hans Hermann von Katte (1704), and Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen (1893).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Andreas Libavius ranks 51. Before him are Henri Victor Regnault (1810), Hermann Kolbe (1818), John Polanyi (1929), Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799), Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709), and Hartmut Michel (1948). After him are Max Joseph von Pettenkofer (1818), Leopold Gmelin (1788), Carl Reichenbach (1788), Viktor Meyer (1848), Karl Friedrich Mohr (1806), and Clemens Winkler (1838).

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