BIOLOGIST

Carl Chun

1852 - 1914

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Carl Chun or Karl Friedrich Gustav Chun (1 October 1852 – 11 April 1914) was a German marine biologist who worked as a professor at the University of Königsberg (1883), Breslau (1891) and at Leipzig (1898). He was a pioneer of German oceanographic research, organizing the first deep-sea expedition aboard the SS Valdivia in 1898-99. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Chun has received more than 49,943 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Carl Chun is the 597th most popular biologist (up from 686th in 2019), the 4,068th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,116th in 2019) and the 133rd most popular German Biologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl Chun ranks 597 out of 1,097. Before him are Antoine Risso, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, Euclides da Cunha, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, Erwin Stresemann, and Edouard Van Beneden. After him are Charles Antoine Lemaire, Eduard Friedrich Poeppig, René Dubos, Jack Horner, Heinrich von Kittlitz, and Ludwig Diels.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Carl Chun ranks 85. Before him are János Csernoch, Leon Wyczółkowski, Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret, Simo Matavulj, William Burnside, and Vasily Safonov. After him are Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, Princess Pauline of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Max Carl Wilhelm Weber, James Dwight, Felix Graf von Bothmer, and Curt von François. Among people deceased in 1914, Carl Chun ranks 103. Before him are Wilhelm Lexis, Koos de la Rey, Ayub Khan, Carl Theodore Liebermann, Peyo Yavorov, and Jacob Riis. After him are Benedict Menni, Paul Mauser, Antun Gustav Matoš, Paul Déroulède, Géza Fejérváry, and Georgy Sedov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Chun ranks 4,068 out of 7,253. Before him are Thomas Schaaf (1961), Benjamin List (1968), Max Dessoir (1867), James Krüss (1926), Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg (1613), and Wolfgang Rihm (1952). After him are Joachim Hansen (1930), George Frederick Charles, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1688), Paul von Hintze (1864), Anna Sophie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1670), Jutta Rüdiger (1910), and Erick-Oskar Hansen (1889).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Carl Chun ranks 133. Before him are Johann Heinrich Blasius (1809), Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer (1782), Jacob Sturm (1771), Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727), Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (1817), and Erwin Stresemann (1889). After him are Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (1798), Ludwig Diels (1874), Richard Goldschmidt (1878), Rolf Singer (1906), Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708), and Max Carl Wilhelm Weber (1852).

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