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BIOLOGIST

Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg

1795 - 1876

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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg has received more than 138,506 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg is the 192nd most popular biologist (down from 89th in 2019), the 1,634th most popular biography from Germany (down from 853rd in 2019) and the 24th most popular German Biologist.

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

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg ranks 192 out of 841Before him are Charles Bell, Friedrich Parrot, Henry Walter Bates, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Humberto Maturana, and Salim Ali. After him are Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Erik Pontoppidan, Michel Adanson, Howard Martin Temin, Carl Gustav Carus, and Pierre André Latreille.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1795, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg ranks 20Before him are Saverio Mercadante, Ary Scheffer, Johns Hopkins, Vincent Pallotti, Hadji Murad, and Maria Schicklgruber. After him are Heinrich Marschner, Peter Andreas Hansen, Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria, Augustin Thierry, Anselme Payen, and Andrew Dũng-Lạc. Among people deceased in 1876, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg ranks 20Before him are Francesco Maria Piave, Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, Hristo Botev, František Palacký, Ferenc Deák, and Wild Bill Hickok. After him are Juan Pablo Duarte, Duchess Caroline Mariane of Mecklenburg, Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, George Smith, Friedrich Christian Diez, and Eugène Fromentin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg ranks 1,634 out of 6,142Before him are Anton von Werner (1843), Princess Elisabeth of Prussia (1815), Pascual Jordan (1902), Hugo Riemann (1849), Otto Dietrich (1897), and Gustav Landauer (1870). After him are Eduard Mörike (1804), William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1876), Karl August von Hardenberg (1750), Albert Lortzing (1801), Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark (1808), and Heinrich Marschner (1795).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg ranks 24Before him are Erwin Neher (1944), Bert Sakmann (1942), Hans Driesch (1867), Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748), Friedrich Parrot (1791), and Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757). After him are Carl Gustav Carus (1789), Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806), Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1916), Georges J. F. Köhler (1946), Willi Hennig (1913), and Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765).