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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 115,509 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle is the 263rd most popular biologist (down from 176th in 2019), the 2,238th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,451st in 2019) and the 41st most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle ranks 263 out of 841. Before him are Hermann Schlegel, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Johann Hermann, Eduard Rüppell, Wilder Penfield, and Alexander Georg von Bunge. After him are René Lesson, Stephan Endlicher, Clair Cameron Patterson, Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, June Almeida, and Fritz Müller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle ranks 27. Before him are Luigi Federico Menabrea, Mariano José de Larra, Bettino Ricasoli, Fredrik Pacius, Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust, and François Certain de Canrobert. After him are Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel, Hannibal Hamlin, Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuán, Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, Robert Cornelius, and Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky. Among people deceased in 1885, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle ranks 29. Before him are Gustav Nachtigal, Louis Riel, Henri Tresca, George B. McClellan, Nikolay Danilevsky, and Narcís Monturiol. After him are Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel, Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Pierre Edmond Boissier, Nikolai Severtzov, Franz Abt, and Thomas A. Hendricks.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle ranks 2,238 out of 6,142. Before him are Georg Konrad Morgen (1909), Princess Mathilde of Bavaria (1877), Heinz Hoffmann (1910), Agnes of Hesse (1527), Marianne Koch (1931), and Ernest Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz (1573). After him are Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen (1861), Burkhard Christoph von Münnich (1683), Klaus Voormann (1938), Rupert I, Elector Palatine (1309), Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski (1899), and Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern (1891).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle ranks 41. Before him are Otto Brunfels (1488), Johann Baptist von Spix (1781), Carl Correns (1864), August Grisebach (1814), Hermann Schlegel (1804), and Eduard Rüppell (1794). After him are Fritz Müller (1822), Valerius Cordus (1515), Carl Hagenbeck (1844), Jacob Christian Schäffer (1718), Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794), and Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802).

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