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Caspar Peucer

1525 - 1602

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Caspar Peucer ( POY-kər, German: [ˈkaspaʁ ˈpɔʏtsɐ]; January 6, 1525 – September 25, 1602) was a German reformer, physician, and scholar of Sorbian origin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Caspar Peucer has received more than 39,015 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Caspar Peucer is the 432nd most popular physician (up from 434th in 2019), the 3,416th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,358th in 2019) and the 74th most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Caspar Peucer ranks 432 out of 726Before him are Kiyoshi Shiga, Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol, Ibn Butlan, Ferdinand von Mueller, Zilda Arns, and Petrus Alphonsi. After him are Johann Lukas Schönlein, Oskar Vogt, Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Wilhelm Fliess, William Gull, and Hulusi Behçet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1525, Caspar Peucer ranks 12Before him are Giovanni Battista Moroni, Zhang Juzheng, Germain Pilon, John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg, Abbakka Chowta, and Patriarch Job of Moscow. After him are Juraj Drašković, and Tadeáš Hájek. Among people deceased in 1602, Caspar Peucer ranks 13Before him are Kobayakawa Hideaki, Li Zhi, Friedrich Wilhelm I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Catherine of Brandenburg-Küstrin, Hedwig of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Kanijeli Siyavuş Pasha. After him are Juan de Fuca, and Thomas Morley.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Caspar Peucer ranks 3,416 out of 7,253Before him are Aribert Reimann (1936), Peter Winter (1754), Karl Wittgenstein (1847), Emil Rathenau (1838), Albertus Pictor (1440), and Otto Hölder (1859). After him are Jacob, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1407), Joshua Kimmich (1995), Anton Koberger (1440), Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper (1742), Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (1842), and Albert Kahn (1869).

Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Caspar Peucer ranks 74Before him are Wilhelm Griesinger (1817), Theodor Meynert (1833), Paul Julius Möbius (1853), Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723), Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (1766), and Ferdinand von Mueller (1825). After him are Johann Lukas Schönlein (1793), Oskar Vogt (1870), Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833), Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1762), Friedrich von Huene (1875), and Friedrich von Esmarch (1823).