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August Leopold Crelle

1780 - 1855

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August Leopold Crelle (17 March 1780 – 6 October 1855) was a German mathematician. He was born in Eichwerder near Wriezen, Brandenburg, and died in Berlin. He is the founder of Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (also known as Crelle's Journal). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of August Leopold Crelle has received more than 20,363 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). August Leopold Crelle is the 322nd most popular mathematician (up from 543rd in 2019), the 2,135th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,461st in 2019) and the 38th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, August Leopold Crelle ranks 322 out of 1,004Before him are Oronce Finé, Theodor Kaluza, Gotthold Eisenstein, Abraham Wald, Igor Shafarevich, and Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov. After him are Shiing-Shen Chern, Stephen Smale, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, Maurice René Fréchet, Alain Connes, and Johann Friedrich Pfaff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1780, August Leopold Crelle ranks 17Before him are Sacagawea, Mary Somerville, Karl Nesselrode, Bernardino Rivadavia, Georgios Karaiskakis, and Tudor Vladimirescu. After him are Hinrich Lichtenstein, Anastasio Bustamante, Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg, Charles Maturin, Clarke Abel, and Heinrich Christian Schumacher. Among people deceased in 1855, August Leopold Crelle ranks 23Before him are Antonio Rosmini, Diponegoro, François Magendie, Jacques Charles François Sturm, Prince Ferdinando, Duke of Genoa, and William Parry. After him are Mariano Arista, Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha, Princess Charlotte of Prussia, FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, Konstantin Batyushkov, and Mihály Vörösmarty.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, August Leopold Crelle ranks 2,135 out of 7,253Before him are Hans Richter (1888), Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria (1795), Ludwig Klages (1872), Jacob Philipp Hackert (1737), Guillermo Kahlo (1871), and Karl Brugmann (1849). After him are Ernest of Bavaria (1554), Johannes Oecolampadius (1482), Sophia Eleonore of Saxony (1609), Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1564), Rachel Félix (1821), and Hanns Kerrl (1887).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, August Leopold Crelle ranks 38Before him are Adolf Hurwitz (1859), Carl David Tolmé Runge (1856), Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach (1800), Michael Maestlin (1550), Wilhelm Ackermann (1896), and Gotthold Eisenstein (1823). After him are Johann Friedrich Pfaff (1765), Nicholas Mercator (1620), Julius Plücker (1801), Lothar Collatz (1910), Felix Bernstein (1878), and Philipp Ludwig von Seidel (1821).