CHEMIST

Carl Reichenbach

1788 - 1869

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Karl Ludwig Freiherr von Reichenbach (German pronunciation: [ˈkaʁl ˈluːtvɪç ˈfʁaɪhɛʁ fɔn ˈʁaɪçn̩bax]; February 12, 1788 – January 19, 1869), known as Carl Reichenbach, was a German chemist, geologist, metallurgist, naturalist, industrialist and philosopher, and a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. He is best known for his discoveries of several chemical products of economic importance, extracted from tar, such as eupione, waxy paraffin, pittacal (the first synthetic dye) and phenol (an antiseptic). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Reichenbach has received more than 106,526 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Carl Reichenbach is the 344th most popular chemist (down from 301st in 2019), the 2,326th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,781st in 2019) and the 59th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Carl Reichenbach ranks 344 out of 602. Before him are Anders Gustaf Ekeberg, Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville, Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev, Charles Macintosh, Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, and Karl Friedrich Mohr. After him are Pierre Joseph Pelletier, Roger Y. Tsien, Carl Djerassi, Charles Hatchett, Louis Camille Maillard, and Julia Lermontova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1788, Carl Reichenbach ranks 25. Before him are Mikhail Lazarev, Leopold Gmelin, David d'Angers, Friedrich Rückert, Geert Adriaans Boomgaard, and Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes. After him are Pierre Joseph Pelletier, Felice Romani, Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, Carl Sigismund Kunth, Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi, and FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan. Among people deceased in 1869, Carl Reichenbach ranks 25. Before him are Carl Gustav Carus, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, John A. Roebling, Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and Giulia Grisi. After him are Constantine, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Wilhelm, Duke of Urach, Mehmed Fuad Pasha, Julian Fontana, and Juraj Haulik.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Reichenbach ranks 2,326 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Filchner (1877), Friedrich Loeffler (1852), Paul Lincke (1866), Louis III, Elector Palatine (1378), Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1763), and Walter Brandmüller (1929). After him are Hermann Scherchen (1891), Hans von Obstfelder (1886), Louis X, Duke of Bavaria (1495), Dietmar Hopp (1940), Johann Christoph Denner (1655), and Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch (1736).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Carl Reichenbach ranks 59. Before him are Leopold Gmelin (1788), Max Joseph von Pettenkofer (1818), Clemens Winkler (1838), Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794), Thomas C. Südhof (1955), and Karl Friedrich Mohr (1806). After him are Viktor Meyer (1848), Otto Schott (1851), Hermann von Fehling (1812), Ernst Otto Beckmann (1853), Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877), and Friedrich Stromeyer (1776).

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