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Caspar Friedrich Wolff

1735 - 1794

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Caspar Friedrich Wolff (18 January 1733 – 22 February 1794) was a German physiologist and embryologist who is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of modern embryology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Caspar Friedrich Wolff has received more than 62,239 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Caspar Friedrich Wolff is the 244th most popular physician (up from 257th in 2019), the 1,755th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,828th in 2019) and the 38th most popular German Physician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Caspar Friedrich Wolff ranks 244 out of 726. Before him are Norman Bethune, Hans Berger, Ernst-Robert Grawitz, Randy Schekman, Marcel Petiot, and Frederik Ruysch. After him are Duchenne de Boulogne, Ernst Gräfenberg, Henry Heimlich, Robert Lefkowitz, François Magendie, and Horst Schumann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1735, Caspar Friedrich Wolff ranks 9. Before him are François Christophe de Kellermann, Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, Crown Prince Sado, Paul Revere, Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, and August Ludwig von Schlözer. After him are Torbern Bergman, Ahmad al-Tijani, Ibrahim Bey, Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, and Johann Karl August Musäus. Among people deceased in 1794, Caspar Friedrich Wolff ranks 30. Before him are Rudolf Erich Raspe, Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Gottfried August Bürger, Sheikh Mansur, James Lind, and Lucile Desmoulins. After him are Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Lotf Ali Khan, Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach, James Bruce, and Paisius Velichkovsky.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Caspar Friedrich Wolff ranks 1,755 out of 7,253. Before him are Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich (1858), Friedrich von Flotow (1812), Sophie of Thuringia, Duchess of Brabant (1224), Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1896), Gretl Braun (1915), and Marianne Brandt (1893). After him are Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694), Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771), Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (1614), Rupert II, Elector Palatine (1325), Princess Louise Amelie of Baden (1811), and Ernst Gräfenberg (1881).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Caspar Friedrich Wolff ranks 38. Before him are Adolf Eugen Fick (1829), Franciscus Sylvius (1614), Karl Adolph von Basedow (1799), Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796), Hans Berger (1873), and Ernst-Robert Grawitz (1899). After him are Ernst Gräfenberg (1881), Horst Schumann (1906), Johann Conrad Dippel (1673), Sigmund Rascher (1909), Adolf Kussmaul (1822), and Eduard Wirths (1909).

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