BIOLOGIST

Erik Pontoppidan

1698 - 1764

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Erik Ludvigsen Pontoppidan (24 August 1698 – 20 December 1764) was a Danish author, a Lutheran bishop of the Church of Norway, a historian, and an antiquarian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erik Pontoppidan has received more than 83,607 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Erik Pontoppidan is the 265th most popular biologist (down from 193rd in 2019), the 205th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 169th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Danish Biologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Erik Pontoppidan ranks 265 out of 1,097. Before him are Sergei Winogradsky, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, James Bond, John Lindley, and Henrietta Lacks. After him are Johann Friedrich von Brandt, Eric F. Wieschaus, Francis Darwin, David Julius, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, and Christen C. Raunkiær.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1698, Erik Pontoppidan ranks 12. Before him are Pierre Bouguer, Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, Riccardo Broschi, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay, Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena, and Jean Calas. After him are Johann Jakob Bodmer, Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans, Pyotr Saltykov, François Francoeur, Giacomo Ceruti, and George Browne. Among people deceased in 1764, Erik Pontoppidan ranks 10. Before him are William Hogarth, Christian Goldbach, Pietro Locatelli, Johann Mattheson, Jean-Marie Leclair, and Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After him are Francesco Algarotti, William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Sophie Caroline of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Picander, Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, and Semyon Chelyuskin.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Erik Pontoppidan ranks 205 out of 1,032. Before him are Morten Thrane Brünnich (1737), Hastein (810), Prince Axel of Denmark (1888), Poul Schlüter (1929), Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1546), and Augusta of Denmark (1580). After him are Christen C. Raunkiær (1860), Jens Otto Krag (1914), Princess Wilhelmina Caroline of Denmark (1747), Marie Krøyer (1867), Søren Lerby (1958), and Henning Larsen (1925).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Denmark

Among biologists born in Denmark, Erik Pontoppidan ranks 5. Before him are Hans Christian Gram (1853), Johan Christian Fabricius (1745), Wilhelm Johannsen (1857), and Morten Thrane Brünnich (1737). After him are Christen C. Raunkiær (1860), Otto Friedrich Müller (1730), Eugenius Warming (1841), Emil Christian Hansen (1842), Japetus Steenstrup (1813), Nathaniel Wallich (1786), and Johannes Schmidt (1877).

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