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Carl Gustav Carus

1789 - 1869

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Carl Gustav Carus (3 January 1789 – 28 July 1869) was a German physiologist and painter, born in Leipzig, who played various roles during the Romantic era. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Gustav Carus has received more than 132,305 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Carl Gustav Carus is the 234th most popular biologist (down from 196th in 2019), the 1,868th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,673rd in 2019) and the 33rd most popular German Biologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Carl Gustav Carus has had the most page views in the with 24,699 views, followed by English (17,043), and Spanish (3,979). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Belarusian (127.06%), Basque (65.31%), and Swedish (52.78%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl Gustav Carus ranks 234 out of 1,097. Before him are Humberto Maturana, Carl Bernhard von Trinius, Michael Houghton, Charles M. Rice, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, and Ludwik Fleck. After him are Howard Martin Temin, Vladimir Demikhov, Nehemiah Grew, Lorenz Oken, James Rothman, and Willi Hennig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1789, Carl Gustav Carus ranks 15. Before him are Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Abbas Mirza, Heinrich Schwabe, Princess Charlotte of Denmark, Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel, and Maria Szymanowska. After him are Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg, John Martin, Marcellin Champagnat, Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, George II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. Among people deceased in 1869, Carl Gustav Carus ranks 19. Before him are Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Giovanni Battista Bugatti, Carl Loewe, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Alexandrine Tinné, and Roger Fenton. After him are Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, John A. Roebling, Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Giulia Grisi, and Carl Reichenbach.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Gustav Carus ranks 1,868 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (1723), Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick (1714), Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken (1746), Charlotte Salomon (1917), Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775), and Heinz Jost (1904). After him are Friedrich Rückert (1788), Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1826), Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein (1757), Friedrich Albert Lange (1828), Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1878), and George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1831).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Carl Gustav Carus ranks 33. Before him are Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757), Friedrich Parrot (1791), Hans Driesch (1867), Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771), Carl Bernhard von Trinius (1778), and Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775). After him are Lorenz Oken (1779), Willi Hennig (1913), Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (1797), Carl Correns (1864), Hermann Schlegel (1804), and Johann Baptist von Spix (1781).

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