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Carl Ludwig

1816 - 1895

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Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig (German: [ˈluːtvɪç]; 29 December 1816 – 23 April 1895) was a German physician and physiologist. His work as both a researcher and teacher had a major influence on the understanding, methods and apparatus used in almost all branches of physiology. In 1842, Ludwig became a professor of physiology and in 1846 of comparative anatomy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Ludwig has received more than 86,488 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Carl Ludwig is the 242nd most popular physician (up from 246th in 2019), the 1,680th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,697th in 2019) and the 34th most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Carl Ludwig ranks 242 out of 502Before him are John O'Keefe, Barry Marshall, Robert Lefkowitz, Frederik Ruysch, Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, and Thomas Bartholin. After him are Torsten Wiesel, François Magendie, Philipp Franz von Siebold, Thomas Addison, August Oetker, and Adolf Eugen Fick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1816, Carl Ludwig ranks 11Before him are Eugène Edine Pottier, Maria Theresa of Austria, Ferdinand II of Portugal, Paul Reuter, Abbas I of Egypt, and Antoine Béchamp. After him are 10th Dalai Lama, Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, Giovanni Morelli, Gustav Freytag, Charles-Eugène Delaunay, and Paul Féval, père. Among people deceased in 1895, Carl Ludwig ranks 26Before him are Lord Randolph Churchill, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, John Russell Hind, Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, and Charles Frederick Worth. After him are Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe, Floriano Peixoto, Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès, Franz Ernst Neumann, James Dwight Dana, and Ányos Jedlik.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Ludwig ranks 1,680 out of 6,142Before him are Josef Bühler (1904), Max Joseph von Pettenkofer (1818), Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia (1719), Hans Blumenberg (1920), Else Lasker-Schüler (1869), and Kurt Gerron (1897). After him are Marianne Weber (1870), Johannes Steinhoff (1913), William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (1516), Hermann Lotze (1817), Sophia of Bavaria (1376), and Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Eutin (1673).

Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Carl Ludwig ranks 34Before him are Ernst-Robert Grawitz (1899), Franciscus Sylvius (1614), Leonhart Fuchs (1501), Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818), Horst Schumann (1906), and Hans Berger (1873). After him are Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796), August Oetker (1862), Adolf Eugen Fick (1829), Karl Adolph von Basedow (1799), Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1735), and Ernst Gräfenberg (1881).