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Carl Værnet

1893 - 1965

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Carl Peter Værnet (April 28, 1893 – November 25, 1965) was a Danish doctor at Buchenwald concentration camp and an SS-Sturmbannführer. Værnet attempted to cure homosexuality by implanting artificial hormone glands into male prisoners at Buchenwald. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Værnet has received more than 123,791 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Carl Værnet is the 258th most popular physician (down from 231st in 2019), the 190th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 162nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Danish Physician.

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  • 120k

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  • 63.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Carl Værnet ranks 258 out of 726. Before him are William Chester Minor, John O'Keefe, Edward Bach, Antonio Maria Valsalva, Christian Bohr, and Torsten Wiesel. After him are Irmfried Eberl, Édouard Séguin, Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, Joseph Škoda, Leon Pinsker, and Constantine the African.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Carl Værnet ranks 76. Before him are Federico Mompou, Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen, Marianne Brandt, Wilhelm Zaisser, Leonarda Cianciulli, and Jean Absil. After him are Dorothy Parker, Dean Acheson, Henry Murray, Armand Călinescu, Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz, and William Moulton Marston. Among people deceased in 1965, Carl Værnet ranks 53. Before him are Jesse Douglas, Georges Gurvitch, Herberts Cukurs, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, Taimur bin Feisal, and Porfirio Rubirosa. After him are Otozō Yamada, William M. Branham, Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, Oskar R. Lange, José Mendes Cabeçadas, and Humberto Delgado.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Carl Værnet ranks 190 out of 1,032. Before him are Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1829), Frederick Christian II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1765), Valdemar Poulsen (1869), Christian Bohr (1855), Dorothea of Denmark, Electress Palatine (1520), and Connie Nielsen (1965). After him are Jens Juel (1745), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (1970), Jan Gehl (1936), Hans Christian Lumbye (1810), Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester (1946), and Princess Louise of Denmark (1750).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Denmark

Among physicians born in Denmark, Carl Værnet ranks 5. Before him are Johannes Fibiger (1867), August Krogh (1874), Jens Christian Skou (1918), and Christian Bohr (1855). After him are Max Heindel (1865), Emil Aarestrup (1800), Carl Lange (1834), and Halfdan T. Mahler (1923).

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