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Friedrich Kasimir Medikus

1736 - 1808

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Friedrich Kasimir Medikus (or Friedrich Casimir Medicus; 6 January 1738 – 8 July 1808) was a German physician and botanist. He was born at Grumbach and became director of the University of Mannheim (Theodoro Palatinae Mannheim) and curator of the botanical garden at Mannheim. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Kasimir Medikus has received more than 22,749 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Kasimir Medikus is the 329th most popular physician (down from 274th in 2019), the 2,539th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,045th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus ranks 329 out of 726. Before him are Dorothea Erxleben, Howard Florey, James Curtis Hepburn, Willi Graf, Clarke Abel, and Carlos Finlay. After him are Tomáš Špidlík, Eugene Botkin, Gabor Maté, Jack Kevorkian, William Bates, and Realdo Colombo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1736, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus ranks 17. Before him are Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Edward Waring, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens, Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, and Anton Graff. After him are Patrick Henry, Daniel Morgan, Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet, Infanta Maria Ana Francisca of Portugal, Juan Bautista de Anza, and Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh. Among people deceased in 1808, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus ranks 12. Before him are Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov, Carl Gotthard Langhans, Johan Christian Fabricius, Hubert Robert, Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, and Gaétan Vestris. After him are Alemdar Mustafa Pasha, Princess Marie of Baden, Paul Wranitzky, Ove Høegh-Guldberg, Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Princess Wilhelmina of Hesse-Kassel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus ranks 2,539 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Maria Ludwiga Theresia of Bavaria (1872), Heinrich Christian Schumacher (1780), Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow (1782), Elwin Bruno Christoffel (1829), Heinrich Rubens (1865), and Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt (1794). After him are Charlotte Buff (1753), Herms Niel (1888), Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg (1729), Julius Klaproth (1783), Sebald Beham (1500), and Axel Rudi Pell (1960).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus ranks 52. Before him are Hinrich Lichtenstein (1780), Johann Christian Reil (1759), Friedrich Hoffmann (1660), Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875), Dorothea Erxleben (1715), and Willi Graf (1918). After him are Johann Peter Frank (1745), Ewald Hering (1834), Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke (1819), Justinus Kerner (1786), Johann von Staupitz (1465), and Adolph Kolping (1813).

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