1816 - 1895
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, Carl Ludwig ranks 242 out of 502. Before 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.
1939 - Present
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 236
1951 - Present
HPI: 57.52
Rank: 237
1943 - Present
HPI: 57.47
Rank: 238
1638 - 1731
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 239
1772 - 1840
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 240
1616 - 1680
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 241
1816 - 1895
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 242
1924 - Present
HPI: 57.06
Rank: 243
1783 - 1855
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 244
1796 - 1866
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 245
1793 - 1860
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 246
1862 - 1918
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 247
1829 - 1901
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 248
Among people born in 1816, Carl Ludwig ranks 11. Before 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 26. Before 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.
1816 - 1887
HPI: 64.69
Rank: 5
1816 - 1867
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 6
1816 - 1885
HPI: 62.96
Rank: 7
1816 - 1899
HPI: 62.28
Rank: 8
1816 - 1854
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 9
1816 - 1908
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 10
1816 - 1895
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 11
1816 - 1837
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 12
1816 - 1856
HPI: 54.95
Rank: 13
1816 - 1891
HPI: 54.92
Rank: 14
1816 - 1895
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 15
1816 - 1872
HPI: 54.63
Rank: 16
1816 - 1887
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 17
1849 - 1895
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 20
1825 - 1895
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 21
1823 - 1895
HPI: 57.44
Rank: 22
1810 - 1895
HPI: 57.38
Rank: 23
1814 - 1895
HPI: 57.17
Rank: 24
1825 - 1895
HPI: 57.16
Rank: 25
1816 - 1895
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 26
1833 - 1895
HPI: 56.40
Rank: 27
1839 - 1895
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 28
1812 - 1895
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 29
1798 - 1895
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 30
1813 - 1895
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 31
1800 - 1895
HPI: 55.21
Rank: 32
Among people born in Germany, Carl Ludwig ranks 1,680 out of 6,142. Before 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).
1904 - 1948
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 1,674
1818 - 1901
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 1,675
1719 - 1765
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 1,676
1920 - 1996
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 1,677
1869 - 1945
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 1,678
1897 - 1944
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 1,679
1816 - 1895
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 1,680
1870 - 1954
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 1,681
1913 - 1994
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 1,682
1516 - 1592
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 1,683
1817 - 1881
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 1,684
1376 - 1428
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 1,685
1673 - 1726
HPI: 57.10
Rank: 1,686
Among physicians born in Germany, Carl Ludwig ranks 34. Before 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).
1899 - 1945
HPI: 59.35
Rank: 28
1614 - 1672
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 29
1501 - 1566
HPI: 58.44
Rank: 30
1818 - 1896
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 31
1906 - 1983
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 32
1873 - 1941
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 33
1816 - 1895
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 34
1796 - 1866
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 35
1862 - 1918
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 36
1829 - 1901
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 37
1799 - 1854
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 38
1735 - 1794
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 39
1881 - 1957
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 40