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Engelbert Kaempfer

1651 - 1716

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Engelbert Kaempfer (16 September 1651 – 2 November 1716) from Lemgo, was a German naturalist, physician, explorer, and writer known for his tour of Russia, Persia, India, Southeast Asia, and Japan between 1683 and 1693. He wrote two books about his travels. Amoenitatum exoticarum, published in 1712, is important for its medical observations and the first extensive description of Japanese plants (Flora Japonica). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Engelbert Kaempfer has received more than 173,037 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Engelbert Kaempfer is the 168th most popular physician (down from 166th in 2019), the 1,124th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,094th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Engelbert Kaempfer ranks 168 out of 726. Before him are Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Agnodice, Robin Cook, Georgios Papanikolaou, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, and Andrea Cesalpino. After him are Georges Gilles de la Tourette, Aretaeus of Cappadocia, Charaka, Frederick Griffith, Kitasato Shibasaburō, and Mehriban Aliyeva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1651, Engelbert Kaempfer ranks 7. Before him are Margaret Theresa of Spain, François Fénelon, Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, William Dampier, Natalya Naryshkina, and Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus. After him are Madame d'Aulnoy, Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, Charles II, Elector Palatine, Charles Eugène de Croÿ, Dimitry of Rostov, and Johann Krieger. Among people deceased in 1716, Engelbert Kaempfer ranks 4. Before him are Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Louis de Montfort, and Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine. After him are Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, Giovanni Battista Bassani, Tokugawa Ietsugu, Ogata Kōrin, Roger Cotes, Anthim the Iberian, Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha, and Charles de La Fosse.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Engelbert Kaempfer ranks 1,124 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernst Hanfstaengl (1887), Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim (1594), Friedrich Sertürner (1783), Gustav Noske (1868), Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans (1426), and Hans Aumeier (1906). After him are Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1641), Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1696), Bruno the Great (925), Severinus of Noricum (410), Christoph Scheiner (1575), and Ernst Zermelo (1871).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Engelbert Kaempfer ranks 22. Before him are Johannes Peter Müller (1801), Herta Oberheuser (1911), Theodor Billroth (1829), Johann Joachim Becher (1635), Albert of Riga (1165), and Carl Ludwig (1816). After him are August von Wassermann (1866), Werner Haase (1900), Leonhart Fuchs (1501), Sebastian Kneipp (1821), Ludwig Guttmann (1899), and Waldemar Hoven (1903).

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