BIOLOGIST

Georg August Goldfuss

1782 - 1848

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Georg August Goldfuß (18 April 1782 – 2 October 1848) was a German palaeontologist, zoologist and botanist. He became a professor of zoology at the University of Erlangen and later at the University of Bonn. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georg August Goldfuss has received more than 85,327 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Georg August Goldfuss is the 450th most popular biologist (up from 573rd in 2019), the 3,366th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,789th in 2019) and the 94th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Georg August Goldfuss ranks 450 out of 1,097. Before him are Zhores Medvedev, Luther Burbank, Heinrich Schrader, Friedrich Boie, Alfred Grandidier, and Heinrich Kuhl. After him are Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, Francisco J. Ayala, Gabriel Bibron, Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, Eugene Odum, and Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1782, Georg August Goldfuss ranks 34. Before him are Esaias Tegnér, Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, Orest Kiprensky, Alexander von Benckendorff, Julie Guicciardi, and F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich. After him are Julius Vincenz von Krombholz, Pōmare II, Daniel Webster, Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer, Maha Bandula, and Angelo Mai. Among people deceased in 1848, Georg August Goldfuss ranks 41. Before him are Takizawa Bakin, Pierre Wantzel, Joseph Görres, Robert Blum, Manto Mavrogenous, and Mastoureh Ardalan. After him are Gabriel Bibron, Petrobey Mavromichalis, Ludwig Leichhardt, Yevhen Hrebinka, Sarah Fuller Flower Adams, and Martinus Rørbye.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georg August Goldfuss ranks 3,366 out of 7,253. Before him are Charles II, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1529), Gunta Stölzl (1897), Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1880), Rebecca Horn (1944), Karl Hohmann (1908), and Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1758). After him are Hans Jordan (1892), Bruno S. (1932), Siegfried Bing (1838), Henriette Sontag (1806), Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (1766), and Franz Grashof (1826).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Georg August Goldfuss ranks 94. Before him are Ernst Hartert (1859), Alwin Berger (1871), Heinrich Boie (1794), Heinrich Schrader (1767), Friedrich Boie (1789), and Heinrich Kuhl (1797). After him are Wilhelm Roux (1850), Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper (1742), Joseph Gaertner (1732), Carl Ludwig Koch (1778), Jacques Loeb (1859), and Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809).

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