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Franciscus Donders

1818 - 1889

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Franciscus (Franz) Cornelius Donders FRS FRSE (27 May 1818 – 24 March 1889) was a Dutch ophthalmologist. During his career, he was a professor of physiology in Utrecht, and was internationally regarded as an authority on eye diseases, directing the Netherlands Hospital for Eye Patients. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franciscus Donders has received more than 82,919 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Franciscus Donders is the 290th most popular physician (down from 284th in 2019), the 327th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 307th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Dutch Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Franciscus Donders ranks 290 out of 726. Before him are Guillaume Dupuytren, Podalirius, Vincenz Priessnitz, Henry Gray, Drew Weissman, and Ennio Antonelli. After him are Caesarius of Nazianzus, Johann Conrad Dippel, Pierre Paul Émile Roux, Gerard van Swieten, Sigmund Rascher, and Leopold Auenbrugger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Franciscus Donders ranks 43. Before him are Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Heinrich Göbel, Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, Marco Minghetti, and P. G. T. Beauregard. After him are Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville, Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann, Eduard Totleben, Louis Gerhard De Geer, Petar Preradović, and Alexander Bain. Among people deceased in 1889, Franciscus Donders ranks 34. Before him are Şevkefza Kadın, Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel, Elvira Madigan, Viktor Bunyakovsky, Ion Creangă, and Princess Eugénie of Sweden. After him are Adolf von Henselt, Ybyrai Altynsarin, Đồng Khánh, Émile Augier, Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, and Şihabetdin Märcani.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Franciscus Donders ranks 327 out of 1,646. Before him are Frans Timmermans (1961), Aad de Mos (1947), Jan Dirksz Both (1618), Jacobus Kapteyn (1851), Karel Dujardin (1622), and Emanuel de Witte (1617). After him are Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903), Samuel Goudsmit (1902), Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633), Charles II, Duke of Guelders (1467), Nikolaus Gerhaert (1420), and Esaias van de Velde (1587).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Netherlands

Among physicians born in Netherlands, Franciscus Donders ranks 9. Before him are Cornelius Jansen (1585), Nicolaes Tulp (1593), Regnier de Graaf (1641), Johann Weyer (1515), Aletta Jacobs (1854), and Frederik Ruysch (1638). After him are Gerard van Swieten (1700), Titus Brandsma (1881), Petrus Camper (1722), Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde (1873), Wim Eijk (1953), and Willem Johan Kolff (1911).

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