BIOLOGIST

Eugen Fischer

1874 - 1967

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Eugen Fischer (5 July 1874 – 9 July 1967) was a German professor of medicine, anthropology, and eugenics, and a member of the Nazi Party. He served as director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, and also served as rector of the Frederick William University of Berlin. Fischer's ideas informed the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 which served to justify the Nazi Party's belief in German racial superiority to other "races", and especially the Jews. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugen Fischer has received more than 315,219 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Eugen Fischer is the 370th most popular biologist (down from 344th in 2019), the 2,821st most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,729th in 2019) and the 68th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Eugen Fischer ranks 370 out of 1,097. Before him are John Gould, Karl Koch, Robert Gallo, John Hughlings Jackson, Georg Joseph Kamel, and Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben. After him are Daniel Solander, Johann Jakob von Tschudi, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, René Lesson, Brian Kobilka, and John Stevens Henslow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Eugen Fischer ranks 93. Before him are Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria, Ernest Duchesne, Wincenty Witos, George Tupou II, Mustafa Kamil Pasha, and Jirō Minami. After him are François Coty, Joaquín Torres-García, Constantin Ion Parhon, Romaine Brooks, Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, and William Foulke. Among people deceased in 1967, Eugen Fischer ranks 112. Before him are Ferenc Münnich, Alice B. Toklas, Geki, Josef Frank, Ernst Wollweber, and Isaac Deutscher. After him are Joseph Cardijn, Albert Lutuli, Abelardo L. Rodríguez, Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, Morris Swadesh, and Varian Fry.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Eugen Fischer ranks 2,821 out of 7,253. Before him are Nikolaus Federmann (1505), Valentin Weigel (1533), Adam Kraft (1450), Hermann von Fehling (1812), August Heissmeyer (1897), and Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (1744). After him are Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken (1385), Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1889), Gerhard Gentzen (1909), Franz Lachner (1803), Otto Deßloch (1889), and Hermann, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1832).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Eugen Fischer ranks 68. Before him are Valerius Cordus (1515), Fritz Müller (1822), Christian Ludwig Brehm (1787), Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (1665), Karl Koch (1809), and Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (1744). After him are Theodor Boveri (1862), Ludwig Reichenbach (1793), Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823), Ernst Schäfer (1910), Princess Therese of Bavaria (1850), and Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (1805).

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