GEOLOGIST

Ferdinand Zirkel

1838 - 1912

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Prof Ferdinand Zirkel FRS(For) HFRSE (20 May 1838 – 11 June 1912) was a German geologist and petrographer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferdinand Zirkel has received more than 15,304 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Ferdinand Zirkel is the 53rd most popular geologist (down from 45th in 2019), the 4,496th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,940th in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Ferdinand Zirkel ranks 53 out of 90. Before him are Alfred Lacroix, Niles Eldredge, Luigi Palmieri, Gerard De Geer, Henry Clifton Sorby, and Ferdinand von Hochstetter. After him are Harry Rosenbusch, Oskar Lenz, Hugo Benioff, Joseph Thomson, Pentti Eskola, and James Hall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Ferdinand Zirkel ranks 90. Before him are Paul Mauser, Giovanni Cagliero, Gotō Shōjirō, Marin Drinov, Adam Asnyk, and Gustav Neumann. After him are Stefanos Skouloudis, Oswald Schmiedeberg, Alexander Veselovsky, General Tom Thumb, Marc Delafontaine, and Oskar Gripenberg. Among people deceased in 1912, Ferdinand Zirkel ranks 107. Before him are Felix Dahn, Anna Filosofova, Iakob Gogebashvili, Pencho Slaveykov, Heinrich Gerber, and Ahmet Mithat. After him are Aleksey Suvorin, Ferdinand Monoyer, Patricio Escobar, Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Spiru Haret, and Eduardo López de Romaña.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ferdinand Zirkel ranks 4,496 out of 7,253. Before him are Julius Curtius (1877), Hedwig Courths-Mahler (1867), Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe-Weissenfels (1673), Lutz D. Schmadel (1942), Karl George Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen (1730), and Franco Foda (1966). After him are Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen (1803), Elisabeth Eleonore of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1658), Walter Sedlmayr (1926), Ralph Kronig (1904), Joseph Meyer (1796), and Rudolf Harbig (1913).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among geologists born in Germany, Ferdinand Zirkel ranks 9. Before him are Beno Gutenberg (1889), Christian Leopold von Buch (1774), Julius von Haast (1822), Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann (1797), Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald (1902), and Ferdinand von Hochstetter (1829). After him are Harry Rosenbusch (1836), Oskar Lenz (1848), and Rudolf Geiger (1894).

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