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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 92,570 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Carl Ludwig is the 157th most popular physician (up from 242nd in 2019), the 1,045th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,680th in 2019) and the 21st most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Carl Ludwig ranks 157 out of 726. Before him are George H. Hitchings, Merit-Ptah, Francysk Skaryna, Joseph Calasanz, Trota of Salerno, and James Black. After him are Severo Ochoa, Charles Brenton Huggins, John Langdon Down, George Whipple, Rolf M. Zinkernagel, and Agnodice.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1816, Carl Ludwig ranks 10. Before him are Arthur de Gobineau, Eugène Edine Pottier, Maria Theresa of Austria, Paul Reuter, Ferdinand II of Portugal, and Abbas I of Egypt. After him are Franz Sacher, John Frederick Kensett, 10th Dalai Lama, Charles-Eugène Delaunay, Antoine Béchamp, and Gustav Freytag. Among people deceased in 1895, Carl Ludwig ranks 17. Before him are Adam Opel, Friedrich Miescher, Franz von Suppé, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Johann Josef Loschmidt, and Arthur Cayley. After him are Nikolai Leskov, Camilla Collett, Julia, Princess of Battenberg, Frederick Douglass, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, and Lord Randolph Churchill.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Ludwig ranks 1,045 out of 7,253. Before him are Emanuel Schikaneder (1751), John McEnroe (1959), Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp (1759), Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern (1835), Johann Mattheson (1681), and Marie of Prussia (1825). After him are Ernst Barlach (1870), Dagmar of Bohemia (1186), Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (1658), Erich Kempka (1910), Carsten Niebuhr (1733), and Manfred Rommel (1928).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Carl Ludwig ranks 21. Before him are Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840), Johannes Peter Müller (1801), Herta Oberheuser (1911), Theodor Billroth (1829), Johann Joachim Becher (1635), and Albert of Riga (1165). After him are Engelbert Kaempfer (1651), August von Wassermann (1866), Werner Haase (1900), Leonhart Fuchs (1501), Sebastian Kneipp (1821), and Ludwig Guttmann (1899).

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