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Ernst Gräfenberg

1881 - 1957

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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 506,567 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Ernst Gräfenberg is the 246th most popular physician (up from 259th in 2019), the 1,761st most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,837th in 2019) and the 39th 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.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Ernst Gräfenberg ranks 246 out of 726. Before him are Ernst-Robert Grawitz, Randy Schekman, Marcel Petiot, Frederik Ruysch, Caspar Friedrich Wolff, and Duchenne de Boulogne. After him are Henry Heimlich, Robert Lefkowitz, François Magendie, Horst Schumann, Sun Simiao, and William Chester Minor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Ernst Gräfenberg ranks 64. Before him are Vincenzo Peruggia, Cecil B. DeMille, H. H. Kung, Günther Quandt, Muhammad VIII al-Amin, and Ramón Grau. After him are Mikhail Larionov, Artur Phleps, Max Pechstein, Otozō Yamada, Albert Gleizes, and Ulrich von Hassell. Among people deceased in 1957, Ernst Gräfenberg ranks 69. Before him are Arnold van Gennep, Theodor Körner, Pedro Infante, Shoghi Effendi, Tomitaro Makino, and Gaston Aumoitte. After him are Soemu Toyoda, Johann Rattenhuber, Carlos Castillo Armas, Malcolm Lowry, Kurt von Tippelskirch, and Josef Hofmann.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Gräfenberg ranks 1,761 out of 7,253. Before him are Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1735), Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694), Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771), Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (1614), Rupert II, Elector Palatine (1325), and Princess Louise Amelie of Baden (1811). After him are Hans Schäfer (1927), Max Morlock (1925), Ferdinand Hiller (1811), Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia (1719), Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (1723), and Franz Pfeffer von Salomon (1888).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Ernst Gräfenberg ranks 39. Before him are Franciscus Sylvius (1614), Karl Adolph von Basedow (1799), Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796), Hans Berger (1873), Ernst-Robert Grawitz (1899), and Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1735). After him are Horst Schumann (1906), Johann Conrad Dippel (1673), Sigmund Rascher (1909), Adolf Kussmaul (1822), Eduard Wirths (1909), and Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel (1783).

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