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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 57,934 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Caspar Friedrich Wolff is the 257th most popular physician (down from 249th in 2019), the 1,830th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,731st in 2019) and the 39th most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Caspar Friedrich Wolff ranks 257 out of 502. Before him are Peter Agre, Karl Adolph von Basedow, Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, Aëtius of Amida, Robert Darwin, and John Harvey Kellogg. After him are Thomas Sydenham, Ernst Gräfenberg, Édouard Séguin, Pierre Paul Émile Roux, Guillaume Dupuytren, and Saint Fabiola.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1735, Caspar Friedrich Wolff ranks 9. Before him are Crown Prince Sado, François Christophe de Kellermann, Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, Torbern Bergman, and Paul Revere. After him are Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, August Ludwig von Schlözer, Johann Karl August Musäus, Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, and Dmitry Levitzky. Among people deceased in 1794, Caspar Friedrich Wolff ranks 31. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Carrier, James Lind, Henri de la Rochejaquelein, Gottfried August Bürger, Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, and Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben. After him are Paisius Velichkovsky, Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne, Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Lotf Ali Khan, James Bruce, and Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Caspar Friedrich Wolff ranks 1,830 out of 6,142. Before him are Karl-Adolf Hollidt (1891), Sigmar Polke (1941), Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1746), Hans-Gert Pöttering (1945), Willi Hennig (1913), and Erdoğan Atalay (1966). After him are Georg Ratzinger (1924), Carl Friedrich Zelter (1758), Margaret Sambiria (1230), George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1605), Hermann Weingärtner (1864), and Ernest, Duke of Bavaria (1373).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Caspar Friedrich Wolff ranks 39. Before him are Hans Berger (1873), Carl Ludwig (1816), Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796), August Oetker (1862), Adolf Eugen Fick (1829), and Karl Adolph von Basedow (1799). After him are Ernst Gräfenberg (1881), Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875), Friedrich Kasimir Medikus (1736), Friedrich Hoffmann (1660), Eduard Wirths (1909), and Claus Schilling (1871).

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