BIOLOGIST

Carl H. Eigenmann

1863 - 1927

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Carl Henry Eigenmann (March 9, 1863 – April 24, 1927) was a German-American ichthyologist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who, along with his wife Rosa Smith Eigenmann, and his zoology students is credited with identifying and describing for the first time 195 genera containing nearly 600 species of fishes of North America and South America. Especially notable among his published papers are his studies of the freshwater fishes of South America, the evolution and systematics of South American fishes, and for his analysis of degenerative evolution based on his studies of blind cave fishes found in parts of North America and in Cuba. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl H. Eigenmann has received more than 37,389 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Carl H. Eigenmann is the 1,007th most popular biologist, the 5,561st most popular biography from Germany and the 193rd most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl H. Eigenmann ranks 1,007 out of 1,097. Before him are Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz, William Healey Dall, Peter Watts, Fanny Hesse, Maxine Singer, and Amos Eaton. After him are Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim, Jessica Meir, George R. Price, Timothy Ray Brown, Alice Wilson, and John Bartram.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Carl H. Eigenmann ranks 173. Before him are Reginald McKenna, Horatio Parker, Lucina Hagman, Charles Le Goffic, Gonzalo Córdova, and John Bunny. After him are Edgar Syers, William Gibbs McAdoo, Outram Bangs, Frank Hornby, and William Robert Ogilvie-Grant. Among people deceased in 1927, Carl H. Eigenmann ranks 149. Before him are Otto Blehr, Ira Remsen, George Nichols, Virgilio Mantegazza, Émile Albrecht, and William Healey Dall. After him are Sarah Frances Whiting, Charles Sprague Sargent, Harry Johnston, Sybil Bauer, Juliette Gordon Low, and B. B. Comer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl H. Eigenmann ranks 5,561 out of 7,253. Before him are Frank Rühle (1944), Ludger Beerbaum (1963), Frank Peterson (1963), Tim Borowski (1980), Sung Yu-ri (1981), and Jürgen Vogel (1968). After him are Anke Huber (1974), Beate Koch (1967), Rudolf Schoeller (1902), Jürgen Hingsen (1958), Campino (1962), and Adolf Möller (1877).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Carl H. Eigenmann ranks 193. Before him are Johann Wilhelm Meigen (1764), Rudolf Schlechter (1872), Alexander Wendt (1958), Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller (1862), Tilly Edinger (1897), and Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz (1834). After him are Christian Drosten (1972).

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