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. In the mid-19th century, he researched Estonian oil shale, kukersite, and named it after Kuckers.Main papers of Friedrich Schmidt research the stratigraphy and fauna of Lower Palaeozoic rocks in Estonia and the neighboring areas. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Friedrich Schmidt has received more than 5,439 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Carl Friedrich Schmidt is the 43rd most popular geologist (up from 49th in 2019), the 112th most popular biography from Estonia (up from 129th in 2019) and the most popular Estonian Geologist.

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  • 49.82

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.68

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Over the past year Carl Friedrich Schmidt has had the most page views in the with 2,839 views, followed by Japanese (1,300), and Bulgarian (659). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Arabic (58.67%), Catalan (50.84%), and Swedish (27.43%)

Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Carl Friedrich Schmidt ranks 43 out of 90. Before him are Alexander von Keyserling, Hiroo Kanamori, Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, Arthur Holmes, John Phillips, and Alexander Karpinsky. After him are Henryk Arctowski, Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald, Richard Kirwan, Alfred Lacroix, Niles Eldredge, and Luigi Palmieri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Carl Friedrich Schmidt ranks 70. Before him are Miroslav Tyrš, Max Lange, Mary Edwards Walker, Larin Paraske, Lina Sandell, and Alvan Graham Clark. After him are Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line, Lucretia Garfield, Nikiforos Lytras, Juan Montalvo, Victor Meirelles, and Eugenio Montero Ríos. Among people deceased in 1908, Carl Friedrich Schmidt ranks 73. Before him are Paul Taffanel, Simo Matavulj, Lester Allan Pelton, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, Ernest Fenollosa, and Milovan Glišić. After him are Nozu Michitsura, Herman Snellen, René Panhard, Ernest Hébert, Rūdolfs Blaumanis, and Lorenz Frølich.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Carl Friedrich Schmidt ranks 112 out of 351. Before him are Eduard Pütsep (1898), Friedrich Robert Faehlmann (1798), Otto Tief (1889), Eno Raud (1928), Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann (1805), and Oskar Luts (1887). After him are Juhan Smuul (1922), Martin Klein (1884), Mart Siimann (1946), Jaak Panksepp (1943), Jakob Hurt (1839), and Johannes Käbin (1905).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In Estonia

Among geologists born in Estonia, Carl Friedrich Schmidt ranks 1. 

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