BIOLOGIST

Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg

1795 - 1876

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Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (19 April 1795 – 27 June 1876) was a German naturalist, zoologist, botanist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg has received more than 144,788 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia. Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg is the 122nd most popular biologist (up from 191st in 2019), the 973rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,634th in 2019) and the 16th most popular German Biologist.

Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg is most famous for his discovery of the bacteria that causes cholera.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg ranks 122 out of 1,097. Before him are Carl Woese, Edward B. Lewis, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Sydney Brenner, Har Gobind Khorana, and Macfarlane Burnet. After him are Martinus Beijerinck, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Othenio Abel, Charles Scott Sherrington, August Grisebach, and Christiaan Hendrik Persoon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1795, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg ranks 13. Before him are Pavel Jozef Šafárik, Antonio José de Sucre, Ary Scheffer, Dred Scott, Alexander Griboyedov, and Ernst Heinrich Weber. After him are John William Polidori, Gabriel Lamé, Saverio Mercadante, Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, Hadji Murad, and Johns Hopkins. Among people deceased in 1876, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg ranks 12. Before him are Karl Ernst von Baer, George Armstrong Custer, Antonio López de Santa Anna, Catherine Labouré, Marie d'Agoult, and Ildefons Cerdà. After him are Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Francesco Maria Piave, Hristo Botev, Antoine Jérôme Balard, and Ferenc Deák.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg ranks 973 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann (1842), Philipp Otto Runge (1777), Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria (1724), Conrad II of Italy (1074), Wilhelm Kempff (1895), and Johann Joachim Becher (1635). After him are Alfred Weber (1868), Franz Ziereis (1905), Joseph Karl Stieler (1781), Christoph Martin Wieland (1733), Hardy Krüger (1928), and Albert of Riga (1165).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg ranks 16. Before him are August Weismann (1834), Ernst Mayr (1904), Bernard Katz (1911), Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806), Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942), and Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748). After him are August Grisebach (1814), Erwin Neher (1944), Bert Sakmann (1942), Walther Flemming (1843), Julius Richard Petri (1852), and Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739).

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