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Georg Marcgrave

1610 - 1644

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Georg Marcgrave (originally German: Georg Marggraf, also spelled "Marcgraf" "Markgraf") (1610 – 1644) was a German naturalist and astronomer, whose posthumously published Historia Naturalis Brasiliae was a major contribution to early modern science. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georg Marcgrave has received more than 35,097 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Georg Marcgrave is the 357th most popular astronomer, the 4,015th most popular biography from Germany and the 53rd most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Georg Marcgrave ranks 357 out of 644. Before him are Hervé Faye, Bart Bok, Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, Viktor Knorre, Heikki A. Alikoski, and Christopher Hansteen. After him are Beatrice Tinsley, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Kiyotsugu Hirayama, Giorgio Abetti, Heber Doust Curtis, and Jean Richer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1610, Georg Marcgrave ranks 22. Before him are Karel Škréta, Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony, Abraham Duquesne, Jan Miense Molenaer, Huang Zongxi, and Albert Eckhout. After him is William Dobson. Among people deceased in 1644, Georg Marcgrave ranks 12. Before him are Countess Louise Juliana of Nassau, Bernardo Strozzi, Alfonso III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Francisco Pacheco, Agostino Tassi, and Guru Hargobind. After him are Luis Vélez de Guevara, and Geoffrey Keating.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georg Marcgrave ranks 4,015 out of 7,253. Before him are Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1761), Margot Hielscher (1919), Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727), Birgit Fischer (1962), Martina Gedeck (1961), and Hermann Gunkel (1862). After him are Carl Graebe (1841), Justus Möser (1720), Ulf Merbold (1941), Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt (1855), Edgar Jung (1894), and Princess Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1663).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Georg Marcgrave ranks 53. Before him are Franz Kaiser (1891), Karl Christian Bruhns (1830), Christine Kirch (1697), Joseph Helffrich (1890), Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke (1835), and Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger (1765). After him are Paul Götz (1883), Brian G. Marsden (1937), Ernst Hartwig (1851), Albrecht Unsöld (1905), Julius Schiller (1580), and Friedrich Tietjen (1834).

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