1795 - 1876
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, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg ranks 192 out of 841. Before 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.
1774 - 1842
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 186
1791 - 1841
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 187
1825 - 1892
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 188
1757 - 1822
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 189
1928 - 2021
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 190
1896 - 1987
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 191
1795 - 1876
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 192
1922 - 2018
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 193
1698 - 1764
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 194
1727 - 1806
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 195
1934 - 1994
HPI: 57.22
Rank: 196
1789 - 1869
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 197
1762 - 1833
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 198
Among people born in 1795, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg ranks 20. Before 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 20. Before 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.
1795 - 1870
HPI: 59.72
Rank: 14
1795 - 1858
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 15
1795 - 1873
HPI: 59.49
Rank: 16
1795 - 1850
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 17
1795 - 1852
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 18
1795 - 1847
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 19
1795 - 1876
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 20
1795 - 1861
HPI: 57.28
Rank: 21
1795 - 1874
HPI: 56.23
Rank: 22
1795 - 1875
HPI: 55.86
Rank: 23
1795 - 1856
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 24
1795 - 1871
HPI: 55.26
Rank: 25
1795 - 1839
HPI: 55.19
Rank: 26
1810 - 1876
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 14
1847 - 1876
HPI: 58.81
Rank: 15
1848 - 1876
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 16
1798 - 1876
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 17
1803 - 1876
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 18
1837 - 1876
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 19
1795 - 1876
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 20
1813 - 1876
HPI: 57.28
Rank: 21
1821 - 1876
HPI: 57.21
Rank: 22
1807 - 1876
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 23
1840 - 1876
HPI: 55.12
Rank: 24
1794 - 1876
HPI: 54.90
Rank: 25
1820 - 1876
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 26
Among people born in Germany, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg ranks 1,634 out of 6,142. Before 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).
1843 - 1915
HPI: 57.33
Rank: 1,628
1815 - 1885
HPI: 57.33
Rank: 1,629
1902 - 1980
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 1,630
1849 - 1919
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 1,631
1897 - 1952
HPI: 57.31
Rank: 1,632
1870 - 1919
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 1,633
1795 - 1876
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 1,634
1804 - 1875
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 1,635
1876 - 1923
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 1,636
1750 - 1822
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 1,637
1801 - 1851
HPI: 57.28
Rank: 1,638
1808 - 1891
HPI: 57.28
Rank: 1,639
1795 - 1861
HPI: 57.28
Rank: 1,640
Among biologists born in Germany, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg ranks 24. Before 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).
1944 - Present
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 18
1942 - Present
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 19
1867 - 1941
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 20
1748 - 1804
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 21
1791 - 1841
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 22
1757 - 1822
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 23
1795 - 1876
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 24
1789 - 1869
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 25
1806 - 1886
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 26
1916 - 2010
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 27
1946 - 1995
HPI: 56.45
Rank: 28
1913 - 1976
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 29
1765 - 1812
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 30