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Carl Schuhmann

1869 - 1946

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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 120,161 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Carl Schuhmann is the 5th most popular gymnast, the 1,228th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,539th 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

Among gymnasts, Carl Schuhmann ranks 5 out of 370. Before him are Nadia Comăneci, Larisa Latynina, Olga Korbut, and Věra Čáslavská. After him are Ágnes Keleti, Margit Korondi, Hermann Weingärtner, Alfred Flatow, Sawao Kato, Boris Shakhlin, and Nikolai Andrianov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Carl Schuhmann ranks 37. Before him are Martin Andersen Nexø, Óscar Carmona, Bogd Khan, Max Hoffmann, Pyotr Krasnov, and Henri Désiré Landru. After him are Vasily Bartold, Gaetano Bresci, Mary Mallon, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, Richard Abegg, and Élie Cartan. Among people deceased in 1946, Carl Schuhmann ranks 50. Before him are Döme Sztójay, Friedrich Jeckeln, Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, Gustav Noske, Otto Georg Thierack, and Clemens August Graf von Galen. After him are Per Albin Hansson, Willi Herold, James Jeans, Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov, Rüdiger von der Goltz, and Miroslav Filipović.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Schuhmann ranks 1,228 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Weitling (1808), Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813), Maximilian Anton, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis (1831), Erika Mann (1905), Princess Cecilie of Baden (1839), and Leo von Klenze (1784). After him are Georg von Hertling (1843), Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1851), Otto of Bamberg (1060), Thea von Harbou (1888), Jack Steinberger (1921), and Hans Reichenbach (1891).

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Among GYMNASTS In Germany

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), Klaus Köste (1943), Maxi Gnauck (1964), Roland Brückner (1955), Andreas Wecker (1970), Marcel Nguyen (1987), and Fabian Hambüchen (1987).

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