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Georgius Agricola

1494 - 1555

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Georgius Agricola (; born Georg Bauer; 24 March 1494 – 21 November 1555) was a German Humanist scholar, mineralogist and metallurgist. Born in the small town of Glauchau, in the Electorate of Saxony of the Holy Roman Empire, he was broadly educated, but took a particular interest in the mining and refining of metals. He was the first to drop the Arabic definite article al-, exclusively writing chymia and chymista in describing activity that we today would characterize as chemical or alchemical, giving chemistry its modern name. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georgius Agricola has received more than 268,618 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Georgius Agricola is the 22nd most popular physician (up from 30th in 2019), the 237th most popular biography from Germany (up from 283rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Physician.

Georgius Agricola is most famous for his book "De Re Metallica" which is a 1556 text on mining and metallurgy.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Georgius Agricola ranks 22 out of 726. Before him are Cesare Lombroso, Cyril of Alexandria, Alois Alzheimer, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, Nestorius, and Pedanius Dioscorides. After him are Li Ching-Yuen, Rudolf Virchow, Emil von Behring, Camillo Golgi, Claude Bernard, and Paul Ehrlich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1494, Georgius Agricola ranks 5. Before him are Suleiman the Magnificent, Francis I of France, François Rabelais, and Fuzûlî. After him are Pontormo, Bona Sforza, Jean Parisot de Valette, Leo Africanus, Rosso Fiorentino, Lucas van Leyden, and William Tyndale. Among people deceased in 1555, Georgius Agricola ranks 4. Before him are Joanna of Castile, Pope Julius III, and Pope Marcellus II. After him are Henry II of Navarre, Kara Ahmed Pasha, Pedro Mascarenhas, Herri met de Bles, Agnes of Hesse, Jacob Clemens non Papa, Luís of Portugal, Duke of Beja, and Thomas of Villanova.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georgius Agricola ranks 237 out of 7,253. Before him are Otto von Guericke (1602), Max Scheler (1874), Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838), Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717), Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (1620), and Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden (1710). After him are Erich Hartmann (1922), Rudolf I of Germany (1218), Paul Heyse (1830), Herbert Marcuse (1898), Carl Schmitt (1888), and Walther von Brauchitsch (1881).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Georgius Agricola ranks 4. Before him are Robert Koch (1843), Josef Mengele (1911), and Alois Alzheimer (1864). After him are Emil Kraepelin (1856), Samuel Hahnemann (1755), Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883), Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884), Gerhard Domagk (1895), Otto Loewi (1873), Theodor Morell (1886), and Werner Forssmann (1904).

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