BIOLOGIST

Georg Wilhelm Steller

1709 - 1746

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Georg Wilhelm Steller (10 March 1709 – 14 November 1746) was a German-born naturalist and explorer who contributed to the fields of biology, zoology, and ethnography. He participated in the Great Northern Expedition (1733–1743) and his observations of the natural world helped the exploration and documentation of the flora and fauna of the North Pacific region. Steller pursued studies in theology and medicine before turning his attention to the natural sciences. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georg Wilhelm Steller has received more than 271,794 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Georg Wilhelm Steller is the 182nd most popular biologist (down from 124th in 2019), the 1,400th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,059th in 2019) and the 25th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Georg Wilhelm Steller ranks 182 out of 1,097. Before him are George Wald, Giuseppe Acerbi, Jakob von Uexküll, Theodor Escherich, Anna Atkins, and George Robert Gray. After him are Peter Medawar, Stephen Jay Gould, Armand David, Jeffrey C. Hall, Ian Wilmut, and Mathurin Jacques Brisson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1709, Georg Wilhelm Steller ranks 10. Before him are Jacques de Vaucanson, Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Franz Benda, and Gabriel Bonnot de Mably. After him are Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, Tokugawa Ietsugu, Alexei Razumovsky, Charles de Brosses, Johann Georg Gmelin, and Franz Xaver Richter. Among people deceased in 1746, Georg Wilhelm Steller ranks 7. Before him are Philip V of Spain, Christian VI of Denmark, Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain, Colin Maclaurin, Francis Hutcheson, and Anna Leopoldovna. After him are Nicolas de Largillière, Domenico Alberti, Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and John Peter Zenger.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georg Wilhelm Steller ranks 1,400 out of 7,253. Before him are Max Schreck (1879), Christian I, Elector of Saxony (1560), Rudolf Erich Raspe (1736), André Previn (1929), Lothar de Maizière (1940), and Walter Kasper (1933). After him are Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1741), Hermann Goldschmidt (1802), Henry III, Margrave of Meissen (1218), Gottfried Böhm (1920), Princess Sophie Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1724), and Toni Kroos (1990).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Georg Wilhelm Steller ranks 25. Before him are Bert Sakmann (1942), Walther Flemming (1843), Julius Richard Petri (1852), Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739), Georges J. F. Köhler (1946), and Theodor Escherich (1857). After him are Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765), Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757), Friedrich Parrot (1791), Hans Driesch (1867), Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771), and Carl Bernhard von Trinius (1778).

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