New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

PHYSICIAN

Ernst Gräfenberg

1881 - 1957

Photo of Ernst Gräfenberg

Icon of person Ernst Gräfenberg

Ernst Gräfenberg (26 September 1881 – 28 October 1957) was a German-born physician and scientist. He is known for developing the intra-uterine device (IUD), and for his studies of the role of the woman's urethra in orgasm. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Gräfenberg has received more than 435,545 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Ernst Gräfenberg is the 259th most popular physician (down from 152nd in 2019), the 1,839th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,040th in 2019) and the 40th most popular German Physician.

Ernst Gräfenberg is most famous for his discovery of the G-spot, which is a sensitive area on the front wall of the vagina, about one to two inches in from the opening.

Memorability Metrics

  • 440k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Ernst Gräfenbergs by language


Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Ernst Gräfenberg ranks 259 out of 502Before him are Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, Aëtius of Amida, Robert Darwin, John Harvey Kellogg, Caspar Friedrich Wolff, and Thomas Sydenham. After him are Édouard Séguin, Pierre Paul Émile Roux, Guillaume Dupuytren, Saint Fabiola, Podalirius, and Caesarius of Nazianzus.

Most Popular Physicians in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Ernst Gräfenberg ranks 64Before him are Franz Gürtner, Ulrich von Hassell, Artur Phleps, Max Pechstein, Otozō Yamada, and Muhammad VIII al-Amin. After him are Curt Sachs, Ramón Grau, Kim Kyu-sik, King Oliver, Augustin Bea, and H. H. Kung. Among people deceased in 1957, Ernst Gräfenberg ranks 71Before him are Leo Perutz, Alexander Vertinsky, Kurt von Tippelskirch, Soemu Toyoda, Malcolm Lowry, and Carlos Castillo Armas. After him are Prince Franz of Bavaria, Heinrich Bär, Josef Hofmann, Dorothy L. Sayers, Washington Luís, and Theodor Körner.

Others Born in 1881

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 1957

Go to all Rankings

In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Gräfenberg ranks 1,839 out of 6,142Before him are Margaret Sambiria (1230), George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1605), Hermann Weingärtner (1864), Ernest, Duke of Bavaria (1373), Axel Springer (1912), and Duchess Charlotte Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1784). After him are Benno (1010), Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau (1837), Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1667), Walter Buch (1883), Judith of Swabia (1054), and Wolfgang Sawallisch (1923).

Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Ernst Gräfenberg ranks 40Before him are Carl Ludwig (1816), Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796), August Oetker (1862), Adolf Eugen Fick (1829), Karl Adolph von Basedow (1799), and Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1735). After him are Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875), Friedrich Kasimir Medikus (1736), Friedrich Hoffmann (1660), Eduard Wirths (1909), Claus Schilling (1871), and Hinrich Lichtenstein (1780).