BIOLOGIST

Carl Ludwig Koch

1778 - 1857

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Carl Ludwig Koch (21 September 1778 – 23 August 1857) was a German entomologist and arachnologist. He was responsible for classifying a great number of spiders, including the Brazilian whiteknee tarantula and common house spider. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Ludwig Koch has received more than 70,591 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Carl Ludwig Koch is the 466th most popular biologist (up from 522nd in 2019), the 3,436th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,586th in 2019) and the 98th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl Ludwig Koch ranks 466 out of 1,097. Before her are June Almeida, Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper, André Marie Constant Duméril, Johann Bauhin, Robert Sapolsky, and Joseph Gaertner. After her are Camille Guérin, W. D. Hamilton, Aldo Leopold, Eduard Friedrich Eversmann, Agostino Bassi, and Anders Dahl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1778, Carl Ludwig Koch ranks 32. Before her are Sigismund von Neukomm, Honoré V, Prince of Monaco, Princess Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac, Joseph Lancaster, and Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac. After her are Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko, Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, Joseph Aspdin, William Hazlitt, Anders Sandøe Ørsted, and Michał Gedeon Radziwiłł. Among people deceased in 1857, Carl Ludwig Koch ranks 40. Before her are Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, William Brown, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Agustina de Aragón, Johann Jakob Heckel, and William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst. After her are Johann Georg Hiedler, Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy, Abe Masahiro, Abraham Jacob van der Aa, Wei Yuan, and Frederick Scott Archer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Ludwig Koch ranks 3,436 out of 7,253. Before her are Kurt von der Chevallerie (1891), Lewis A. Coser (1913), Albert O. Hirschman (1915), Prince William of Baden (1829), Joseph Gaertner (1732), and Thomas Doll (1966). After her are Karl von Einem (1853), Herman Rarebell (1949), Johann Lukas Schönlein (1793), Oskar Vogt (1870), Reinhard Hardegen (1913), and Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg (1838).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Carl Ludwig Koch ranks 98. Before her are Friedrich Boie (1789), Heinrich Kuhl (1797), Georg August Goldfuss (1782), Wilhelm Roux (1850), Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper (1742), and Joseph Gaertner (1732). After her are Jacques Loeb (1859), Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809), Karl Gegenbaur (1826), Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831), Archibald Reiss (1875), and Otto Wilhelm Thomé (1840).

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