1869 - 1946
Carl August Berthold Schuhmann (12 May 1869 – 24 March 1946) was a German athlete who won four Olympic titles in gymnastics and wrestling at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, becoming the most successful athlete at the inaugural Olympics of the modern era. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Schuhmann has received more than 97,739 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Carl Schuhmann is the 5th most popular gymnast (down from 3rd in 2019), the 1,539th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,055th in 2019) and the most popular German Gymnast.
Carl Schuhmann is most famous for his discovery of the Schuhmann body, which is a small, white, spherical object that is found in the cytoplasm of cells. The Schuhmann body is a remnant of the nuclear envelope, which was lost during mitosis.
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Among gymnasts, Carl Schuhmann ranks 5 out of 183. Before him are Nadia Comăneci, Larisa Latynina, Věra Čáslavská, and Olga Korbut. After him are Alfred Flatow, Ágnes Keleti, Hermann Weingärtner, Leon Štukelj, Nikolai Andrianov, Sawao Kato, and Alina Kabaeva.
1961 - Present
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 1
1934 - Present
HPI: 65.15
Rank: 2
1942 - 2016
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 3
1955 - Present
HPI: 59.36
Rank: 4
1869 - 1946
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 5
1869 - 1942
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 6
1921 - Present
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 7
1864 - 1919
HPI: 56.33
Rank: 8
1898 - 1999
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 9
1952 - 2011
HPI: 53.41
Rank: 10
1946 - Present
HPI: 53.10
Rank: 11
1983 - Present
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1869, Carl Schuhmann ranks 45. Before him are Joseph Franklin Rutherford, Gaetano Bresci, Élie Cartan, Liane de Pougy, Hovhannes Tumanyan, and Prince Aloys of Liechtenstein. After him are Giulio Douhet, Vasily Bartold, Valdemar Poulsen, Else Lasker-Schüler, Bogd Khan, and Alfred Flatow. Among people deceased in 1946, Carl Schuhmann ranks 59. Before him are Marcel Petiot, Clemens August Graf von Galen, Anton Mussert, Hisaichi Terauchi, Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov, and Henry Bergman. After him are James Jeans, Miroslav Filipović, Max Koegel, Arthur Greiser, Jeanne Lanvin, and Jenny-Wanda Barkmann.
1869 - 1942
HPI: 59.38
Rank: 39
1869 - 1901
HPI: 58.89
Rank: 40
1869 - 1951
HPI: 58.83
Rank: 41
1869 - 1950
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 42
1869 - 1923
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 43
1869 - 1955
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 44
1869 - 1946
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 45
1869 - 1930
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 46
1869 - 1930
HPI: 57.36
Rank: 47
1869 - 1942
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 48
1869 - 1945
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 49
1869 - 1924
HPI: 57.09
Rank: 50
1869 - 1942
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 51
1897 - 1946
HPI: 59.10
Rank: 53
1878 - 1946
HPI: 58.90
Rank: 54
1894 - 1946
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 55
1879 - 1946
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 56
1890 - 1946
HPI: 58.39
Rank: 57
1868 - 1946
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 58
1869 - 1946
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 59
1877 - 1946
HPI: 57.68
Rank: 60
1915 - 1946
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 61
1895 - 1946
HPI: 57.00
Rank: 62
1897 - 1946
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 63
1867 - 1946
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 64
1922 - 1946
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 65
Among people born in Germany, Carl Schuhmann ranks 1,539 out of 6,142. Before him are Ernst Engel (1821), Walter Warlimont (1894), Thomas Kretschmann (1962), Hemma (800), Christoph Scheiner (1575), and Conrad Celtes (1459). After him are Peter Minuit (1589), Johann Jacob Schweppe (1740), Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709), Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813), Eugen Fink (1905), and Rudolf Arnheim (1904).
1821 - 1896
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 1,533
1894 - 1976
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 1,534
1962 - Present
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 1,535
800 - 876
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 1,536
1575 - 1650
HPI: 57.79
Rank: 1,537
1459 - 1508
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 1,538
1869 - 1946
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 1,539
1589 - 1638
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 1,540
1740 - 1821
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 1,541
1709 - 1782
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 1,542
1813 - 1890
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 1,543
1905 - 1975
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 1,544
1904 - 2007
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 1,545
Among gymnasts born in Germany, Carl Schuhmann ranks 1. After him are Hermann Weingärtner (1864), Alfred Schwarzmann (1912), Conrad Böcker (1870), Konrad Frey (1909), George Eyser (1870), Maxi Gnauck (1964), Roland Brückner (1955), Marcel Nguyen (1987), Andreas Wecker (1970), Fabian Hambüchen (1987), and Philipp Boy (1987).
1869 - 1946
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 1
1864 - 1919
HPI: 56.33
Rank: 2
1912 - 2000
HPI: 52.02
Rank: 3
1870 - 1936
HPI: 50.84
Rank: 4
1909 - 1974
HPI: 46.21
Rank: 5
1870 - 1919
HPI: 45.36
Rank: 6
1964 - Present
HPI: 39.34
Rank: 7
1955 - Present
HPI: 36.82
Rank: 8
1987 - Present
HPI: 32.54
Rank: 9
1970 - Present
HPI: 31.49
Rank: 10
1987 - Present
HPI: 31.40
Rank: 11
1987 - Present
HPI: 23.32
Rank: 12