BIOLOGIST

Erwin Stresemann

1889 - 1972

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Erwin Friedrich Theodor Stresemann (22 November 1889, in Dresden – 20 November 1972, in East Berlin) was a German naturalist and ornithologist. Stresemann was an ornithologist of extensive breadth who compiled one of the first and most comprehensive accounts of avian biology of its time as part of the Handbuch der Zoologie (Handbook of Zoology). In the process of his studies on birds, he also produced one of the most extensive historical accounts on the development of the science of ornithology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erwin Stresemann has received more than 47,390 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Erwin Stresemann is the 595th most popular biologist (up from 830th in 2019), the 4,052nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,506th in 2019) and the 132nd most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Erwin Stresemann ranks 595 out of 1,097Before him are Garrett Hardin, Jean-Étienne Guettard, Antoine Risso, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, Euclides da Cunha, and Elizabeth Gertrude Britton. After him are Edouard Van Beneden, Carl Chun, Charles Antoine Lemaire, Eduard Friedrich Poeppig, René Dubos, and Jack Horner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Erwin Stresemann ranks 191Before him are Marcel Moyse, Elmo Lincoln, Julius Skutnabb, Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu, Ronald Fairbairn, and János Garay. After him are Dirk Coster, Erick-Oskar Hansen, Vera Karalli, Willi Baumeister, Georg Schrimpf, and Vladimir Sokoloff. Among people deceased in 1972, Erwin Stresemann ranks 147Before him are Louis J. Mordell, Hermann Boehm, Vera Inber, Edgar G. Ulmer, Balys Dvarionas, and Max Fleischer. After him are Vera Karalli, Markos Vamvakaris, Bernabé Ferreyra, Romas Kalanta, Roger Courtois, and Jessie Royce Landis.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Erwin Stresemann ranks 4,052 out of 7,253Before him are Alfred Müller-Armack (1901), Franz Blücher (1896), Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch (1714), William II of Berg (1348), Immanuel Hermann Fichte (1796), and Theodor Plievier (1892). After him are Leonhard Kaupisch (1878), Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (1826), Albert Brülls (1937), Torsten Frings (1976), Joachim Camerarius (1500), and Bill Kaulitz (1989).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Erwin Stresemann ranks 132Before him are Blasius Merrem (1761), Johann Heinrich Blasius (1809), Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer (1782), Jacob Sturm (1771), Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727), and Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (1817). After him are Carl Chun (1852), Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (1798), Ludwig Diels (1874), Richard Goldschmidt (1878), Rolf Singer (1906), and Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708).