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GEOLOGIST

Carl Friedrich Schmidt

1832 - 1908

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Carl Friedrich Schmidt (Russian: Фёдор Богданович Шмидт, Fyodor Bogdanovich Schmidt; also known as Friedrich Schmidt; 27 January [O.S. 15 January] 1832 in Kaisma, Livonia – 21 November [O.S. 8 November] 1908 in Saint Petersburg) was a Baltic German geologist and botanist in the Russian Empire. He is acknowledged as the founder of Estonian geology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Friedrich Schmidt has received more than 5,473 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Friedrich Schmidt is the 50th most popular geologist (down from 37th in 2019), the 129th most popular biography from Estonia (down from 102nd in 2019) and the most popular Estonian Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Carl Friedrich Schmidt ranks 50 out of 59Before him are Julius von Haast, Henryk Arctowski, Ferdinand Zirkel, Alexander Karpinsky, Luigi Palmieri, and Oskar Lenz. After him are M. King Hubbert, Henry Clifton Sorby, Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, Marcel Alexandre Bertrand, James Hall, and Maria Klenova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Carl Friedrich Schmidt ranks 74Before him are Juan Montalvo, Léon Gautier, Carl Neumann, Victor Meirelles, Horatio Alger, and Eugenio Montero Ríos. After him are Edward Newton, Lucretia Garfield, William Thomas Blanford, Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero, Kolos Ferenc Vaszary, and Zsófia Torma. Among people deceased in 1908, Carl Friedrich Schmidt ranks 80Before him are John Evans, Milovan Glišić, Nozu Michitsura, Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević, Hashimoto Gahō, and Baron Ignaz von Plener. After him are Svatopluk Čech, Walter Leistikow, Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, Henry Clifton Sorby, Henry Bird, and Manuel Curros Enríquez.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Carl Friedrich Schmidt ranks 129 out of 310Before him are Mart Siimann (1946), Eri Klas (1939), Aleksey Shakhmatov (1864), Juhan Smuul (1922), Ene Ergma (1944), and Jüri Tarmak (1946). After him are Artur Lemba (1885), Jüri Jaakson (1870), Eino Tamberg (1930), Hendrik Adamson (1891), Uku Masing (1909), and Arnold Luhaäär (1905).

Among GEOLOGISTS In Estonia

Among geologists born in Estonia, Carl Friedrich Schmidt ranks 1