BIOLOGIST

Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle

1809 - 1885

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Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (German: [ˈhɛnlə]; 9 July 1809 – 13 May 1885) was a German physician, pathologist, and anatomist. He is credited with the discovery of the loop of Henle in the kidney. His essay, "On Miasma and Contagia," was an early argument for the germ theory of disease. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle has received more than 124,959 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle is the 261st most popular biologist (up from 262nd in 2019), the 2,036th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,236th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle ranks 261 out of 1,097. Before him are Joseph Dalton Hooker, Eduard Rüppell, Michael Rosbash, Carol W. Greider, Sergei Winogradsky, and Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link. After him are James Bond, John Lindley, Henrietta Lacks, Erik Pontoppidan, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, and Eric F. Wieschaus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle ranks 22. Before him are Juliusz Słowacki, Prince Albert of Prussia, Bettino Ricasoli, James Glaisher, Juan Donoso Cortés, and Luigi Federico Menabrea. After him are Sebastián Iradier, Fredrik Pacius, Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel, Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust, Mariano José de Larra, and François Certain de Canrobert. Among people deceased in 1885, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle ranks 27. Before him are George B. McClellan, Franz Abt, Gustav Nachtigal, Henri Milne-Edwards, Princess Elisabeth of Prussia, and Duke Alexander of Württemberg. After him are Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel, Julius Benedict, Henri Tresca, Nikolai Severtzov, Nikolay Danilevsky, and Charles Rogier.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle ranks 2,036 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1853), Handrij Zejler (1804), Rudolph Goclenius (1547), Anna of Brandenburg (1487), Kai Hansen (1963), and Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse (1244). After him are Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1855), Ernst Barkmann (1919), George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1547), Princess Helena of Nassau (1831), Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1857), and Philip, Elector Palatine (1448).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle ranks 43. Before him are Carl Correns (1864), Hermann Schlegel (1804), Johann Baptist von Spix (1781), Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1916), Eduard Rüppell (1794), and Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767). After him are Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802), Wilhelm Peters (1815), Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794), Johann Georg Christian Lehmann (1792), Hieronymus Bock (1498), and Carl Hagenbeck (1844).

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