BIOLOGIST

Emil Christian Hansen

1842 - 1909

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Emil Christian Hansen (8 May 1842 – 27 August 1909) was a Danish mycologist and fermentation physiologist. Hansen was born in Ribe to Joseph Christian Hansen, a house-painter, and his wife Ane Catherina Dyhre.He was awarded a gold medal in 1876 for an essay on fungi, titled De danske Gjødningssvampe. During his days as a university student in Copenhagen, he worked as an unpaid assistant to zoologist Japetus Steenstrup (1813–1897). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emil Christian Hansen has received more than 55,201 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Emil Christian Hansen is the 406th most popular biologist (down from 333rd in 2019), the 296th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 256th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Danish Biologist.

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  • 55k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Emil Christian Hansen has had the most page views in the with 4,905 views, followed by Danish (1,934), and Spanish (1,447). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Belarusian (58.06%), Lombard (50.50%), and Ukrainian (27.81%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Emil Christian Hansen ranks 406 out of 1,097. Before him are Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Karl Möbius, Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck, Marie Stopes, Carl Borivoj Presl, and Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot. After him are Georg Eberhard Rumphius, Karl Eichwald, Peter Artedi, C. L. Gloger, Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, and Johann Jakob Heckel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Emil Christian Hansen ranks 56. Before him are Mahadev Govind Ranade, Eloy Alfaro, Maurice Rouvier, Carl Millöcker, Arthur Sullivan, and Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein. After him are Antonio Fogazzaro, Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko, Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, Alessandro Fortis, Erik Gustaf Boström, and Princess Alexandrine of Prussia. Among people deceased in 1909, Emil Christian Hansen ranks 47. Before him are John Millington Synge, Zhang Zhidong, Friedrich Martens, Mieczysław Karłowicz, Robert Hausmann, and Margarete Steiff. After him are Charles-Louis Philippe, Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, Rodolphe Lindt, Walther Ritz, Gaston, Marquis de Galliffet, and Alessandro Fortis.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Emil Christian Hansen ranks 296 out of 1,032. Before him are Sigmundur Brestisson (961), John Hansen (1924), Ghita Nørby (1935), Martha of Denmark (1277), Emil Aarestrup (1800), and Louise Rasmussen (1815). After him are Martin Knudsen (1871), Edgar Rubin (1886), Harald Klak (null), Jørgen Ingmann (1925), Tony Rominger (1961), and Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (1831).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Denmark

Among biologists born in Denmark, Emil Christian Hansen ranks 9. Before him are Wilhelm Johannsen (1857), Morten Thrane Brünnich (1737), Erik Pontoppidan (1698), Christen C. Raunkiær (1860), Otto Friedrich Müller (1730), and Eugenius Warming (1841). After him are Japetus Steenstrup (1813), Nathaniel Wallich (1786), Johannes Schmidt (1877), Johan Lange (1818), and Christian Friedrich Ecklon (1795).

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