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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 45,199 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Carl Chun is the 687th most popular biologist (down from 597th in 2019), the 4,129th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,493rd in 2019) and the 135th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl Chun ranks 687 out of 841. Before him are Nicolaus Michael Oppel, Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer, Jacques Miller, Jan Frederik Gronovius, John Richardson, and Antoine Risso. After him are William Hemsley, Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet, William Sherard, David Don, Élie-Abel Carrière, and Johann Gerhard König.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Carl Chun ranks 95. Before him are Vasily Safonov, Theodore Robinson, Hans Huber, George Moore, Fulgence Bienvenüe, and Curt von François. After him are Lin Shu, James Dwight, Johan Ramstedt, Theo Heemskerk, Orest Khvolson, and Daniel De Leon. Among people deceased in 1914, Carl Chun ranks 111. Before him are Jules Lemaître, Ernst Stadler, Constantine V of Constantinople, Eugenio Montero Ríos, Carl Theodore Liebermann, and Kitty Lange Kielland. After him are Margaret E. Knight, John Philip Holland, Eugène Balme, Jakub Arbes, Morton Betts, and Daniel De Leon.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Chun ranks 4,129 out of 6,142. Before him are Max Raabe (1962), Susanne Lothar (1960), Lian Ross (1962), Heinrich von Gagern (1799), Franz Josef Ruprecht (1814), and Peter Gay (1923). After him are Friedrich von Huene (1875), Wolfgang Clement (1940), Christian Albrecht Jensen (1792), Franz Josef Jung (1949), Paul Hermann (1646), and Eduard Künneke (1885).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Carl Chun ranks 135. Before him are Charlotte Auerbach (1899), Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708), Eduard Oscar Schmidt (1823), Ernst Hartert (1859), Nicolaus Michael Oppel (1782), and Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer (1829). After him are Johannes Baptista von Albertini (1769), Friedrich Boie (1789), Anton Reichenow (1847), Wilhelm Hofmeister (1824), Ernst Ahl (1898), and August Batsch (1761).

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