BIOLOGIST

Eduard Rüppell

1794 - 1884

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Wilhelm Peter Eduard Simon Rüppell, also spelled Rueppell (20 November 1794 – 10 December 1884) was a German naturalist and explorer, best known for his collections and descriptions of plants and animals from Africa and Arabia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eduard Rüppell has received more than 66,947 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Eduard Rüppell is the 256th most popular biologist (up from 259th in 2019), the 2,005th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,165th in 2019) and the 41st most popular German Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 67k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Eduard Rüppell has had the most page views in the with 8,270 views, followed by German (2,758), and Russian (1,417). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hebrew (223.35%), Bulgarian (70.45%), and Ukrainian (55.87%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Eduard Rüppell ranks 256 out of 1,097. Before him are Richard Henderson, Alexander Georg von Bunge, Morten Thrane Brünnich, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, and Joseph Dalton Hooker. After him are Michael Rosbash, Carol W. Greider, Sergei Winogradsky, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, and James Bond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, Eduard Rüppell ranks 12. Before him are Theobald Boehm, William Whewell, Józef Bem, Ignaz Moscheles, Wilhelm Müller, and Aimable Pélissier. After him are Léon Cogniet, Eilhard Mitscherlich, Mirza Shafi Vazeh, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Pyotr Chaadayev, and Friedrich Christian Diez. Among people deceased in 1884, Eduard Rüppell ranks 23. Before him are Hans Makart, Alexander, Prince of Orange, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal, Paul Abadie, and Hermann Schlegel. After him are Cetshwayo kaMpande, George Bentham, William, Duke of Brunswick, Eduard Totleben, Leopold Fitzinger, and Juan Bautista Alberdi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Eduard Rüppell ranks 2,005 out of 7,253. Before him are Martin Luther (1895), Princess Elisabeth of Prussia (1815), George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1539), Louis V, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1577), Marianne Koch (1931), and Peter Cornelius (1824). After him are Violante Beatrice of Bavaria (1673), Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797), Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1617), Agnes of Hesse (1527), Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (1787), and Hans Hartwig von Beseler (1850).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Eduard Rüppell ranks 41. Before him are Willi Hennig (1913), Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (1797), Carl Correns (1864), Hermann Schlegel (1804), Johann Baptist von Spix (1781), and Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1916). After him are Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767), Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809), Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802), Wilhelm Peters (1815), Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794), and Johann Georg Christian Lehmann (1792).

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