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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 44,993 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Franz Steindachner is the 603rd most popular biologist (down from 594th in 2019), the 747th most popular biography from Austria (down from 693rd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Austrian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Franz Steindachner ranks 603 out of 841Before him are Alfred Cogniaux, Thomas Say, Edward Turner Bennett, Heinrich Boie, David Suzuki, and Pier Andrea Saccardo. After him are Michele Tenore, Charles Wyville Thomson, Theodore Gill, Everard Home, Augustin Saint-Hilaire, and William Henry Hudson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Franz Steindachner ranks 69Before him are Hugo Schiff, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, Todor Burmov, John Wesley Powell, and Felix Dahn. After him are Edwin Klebs, Adrien René Franchet, Maurice Raynaud, Louis Ruchonnet, Manuel Pardo, and Friedrich Tietjen. Among people deceased in 1919, Franz Steindachner ranks 118Before him are Tibor Szamuely, Ricardo Palma, Victorino de la Plaza, Géza Csáth, Paul Deussen, and Julia Lermontova. After him are Louis Diémer, Spyridon Lambros, Napoleon Cybulski, Ramón Barros Luco, Alfred Deakin, and Henry Clay Frick.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Franz Steindachner ranks 747 out of 1,237Before him are Wilhelm Hahnemann (1914), Peter Stöger (1966), Max Merkel (1918), Karl Sesta (1906), René Wellek (1903), and Christian Schwarz-Schilling (1930). After him are Herma Bauma (1915), Fritz Wotruba (1907), Ursula Ledóchowska (1865), Alexander Wurz (1974), Adi Hütter (1970), and Friedrich Waismann (1896).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Austria

Among biologists born in Austria, Franz Steindachner ranks 13Before him are Othenio Abel (1875), Clemens von Pirquet (1874), Leopold Fitzinger (1802), Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti (1735), Franz Unger (1800), and Ignaz Schiffermüller (1727). After him are Josef August Schultes (1773), Johann Natterer (1787), Joseph Rock (1884), Otto Stapf (1857), Pál Kitaibel (1757), and Carl Eduard Hellmayr (1878).