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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 79,475 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Georg August Goldfuss is the 574th most popular biologist (down from 306th in 2019), the 3,798th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,339th in 2019) and the 115th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Georg August Goldfuss ranks 574 out of 841Before him are Gustav Radde, Achille Richard, Alfred Sturtevant, Oswald Heer, Alfred Newton, and John Murray. After him are Johann Julius Walbaum, Johan August Wahlberg, Amotz Zahavi, Asa Gray, Émile Duclaux, and Johannes Burman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1782, Georg August Goldfuss ranks 36Before him are Orest Kiprensky, Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, Pōmare II, Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer, Georgios Kountouriotis, and Julius Vincenz von Krombholz. After him are Daniel Webster, Steen Steensen Blicher, Marie-Anne Libert, Nicolaus Michael Oppel, Lewis Cass, and Charles James Napier. Among people deceased in 1848, Georg August Goldfuss ranks 49Before him are Joseph Görres, Sarah Fuller Flower Adams, Petrobey Mavromichalis, Mastoureh Ardalan, Jacob Sturm, and Martinus Rørbye. After him are Steen Steensen Blicher, Gabriel Bibron, Vasily Stasov, George W. Campbell, Pedro Vélez, and Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georg August Goldfuss ranks 3,798 out of 6,142Before him are Johann Nicolaus Bach (1669), Karl-Josef Rauber (1934), Wolfgang Staudte (1906), Alfred Keller (1882), Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901), and Dora Gerson (1899). After him are Hans Apel (1932), Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (1807), Boris Papandopulo (1906), Johann Julius Walbaum (1724), Auguste of Anhalt-Dessau (1793), and Fritz Reuter (1810).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Georg August Goldfuss ranks 115Before him are Adam Lonicer (1528), Max Carl Wilhelm Weber (1852), Ludwig Diels (1874), Jacques Loeb (1859), Paul Friedrich August Ascherson (1834), and Johann Georg Christian Lehmann (1792). After him are Johann Julius Walbaum (1724), Johann Friedrich Naumann (1780), Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold (1804), Heinrich Boie (1794), Otto Bütschli (1848), and Salomon Müller (1804).