BIOLOGIST

Franz Steindachner

1834 - 1919

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Franz Steindachner (11 November 1834 in Vienna – 10 December 1919 in Vienna) was an Austrian zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. He published over 200 papers on fishes and over 50 papers on reptiles and amphibians. Steindachner described hundreds of new species of fish and dozens of new amphibians and reptiles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Steindachner has received more than 49,717 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Franz Steindachner is the 740th most popular biologist (down from 602nd in 2019), the 879th most popular biography from Austria (down from 742nd in 2019) and the 17th most popular Austrian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Franz Steindachner ranks 740 out of 1,097. Before him are Alfred Moquin-Tandon, John Richardson, Marmaduke Tunstall, Johann Jacob Dillenius, Rodolfo Amando Philippi, and Otto Stapf. After him are Miriam Rothschild, Johannes Thiele, John Anderson, Wilhelm Weinberg, Auguste Duméril, and Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Franz Steindachner ranks 81. Before him are Aleksey Suvorin, Yuriy Fedkovych, Heinrich Caro, Louis Ruchonnet, Jacob Volhard, and Ignacio Manuel Altamirano. After him are Adolph Frank, Manuel Pardo, Maurice Raynaud, Princess Marie of Baden, Rafael Zaldívar, and Édouard Pailleron. Among people deceased in 1919, Franz Steindachner ranks 134. Before him are Spyridon Lambros, Sven Forssman, Ramón Barros Luco, Walter Brack, Robert Bacon, and Napoleon Cybulski. After him are Manuel Franco, Petre P. Carp, Valerian Albanov, Hermann Lietz, Camille Erlanger, and George Eyser.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Franz Steindachner ranks 879 out of 1,424. Before him are Marianne Hainisch (1839), Christian Schwarz-Schilling (1930), Otto Stapf (1857), Fritzi Burger (1910), Felix Lichnowsky (1814), and Johannes Hahn (1957). After him are Trude Beiser (1927), Mihály Pollack (1773), Matthias Kaburek (1911), Franz Cisar (1908), Sissy Schwarz (1936), and Danny Nucci (1968).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Austria

Among biologists born in Austria, Franz Steindachner ranks 17. Before him are Franz Unger (1800), Josef August Schultes (1773), Johann Natterer (1787), Ignaz Schiffermüller (1727), Richard Wettstein (1863), and Otto Stapf (1857). After him are Pál Kitaibel (1757), Joseph Rock (1884), Carl Eduard Hellmayr (1878), and Angelika Amon (1967).

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