BIOLOGIST

Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim

1771 - 1853

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Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (Russian: Григо́рий Ива́нович Фи́шер фон Ва́льдгейм, romanized: Grigórij Ivánovič Fíšer fon Vál'dgejm; 13 October 1771 – 18 October 1853) was a Saxon anatomist, entomologist and paleontologist. Fischer was born as Gotthilf Fischer in Waldheim, Saxony, the son of a linen weaver. He studied medicine at Leipzig. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim has received more than 73,922 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim is the 218th most popular biologist (up from 230th in 2019), the 1,757th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,000th in 2019) and the 30th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim ranks 218 out of 1,097. Before him are Tomitaro Makino, Joseph Banks, Hans Driesch, Hideyo Noguchi, Michael W. Young, and Desmond Morris. After him are Stephan Endlicher, Albert von Kölliker, Roberto de Visiani, Thomas Cavalier-Smith, H. Robert Horvitz, and James Dwight Dana.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1771, Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim ranks 16. Before him are Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, Alois Senefelder, Marie François Xavier Bichat, Laskarina Bouboulina, Mungo Park, and Jean-Andoche Junot. After him are Mikhail Miloradovich, Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duke Alexander of Württemberg, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, Rahel Varnhagen, and Ferdinando Paer. Among people deceased in 1853, Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim ranks 16. Before him are Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński, Christian Leopold von Buch, Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Matteo Carcassi, Tokugawa Ieyoshi, and Leopold Gmelin. After him are Juan Donoso Cortés, Julius Jacob von Haynau, Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Andries Pretorius, Frédéric Ozanam, and Joaquin Murrieta.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim ranks 1,757 out of 7,253. Before him are Sophie of Thuringia, Duchess of Brabant (1224), Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1896), Gretl Braun (1915), Marianne Brandt (1893), Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1735), and Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694). After him are Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (1614), Rupert II, Elector Palatine (1325), Princess Louise Amelie of Baden (1811), Ernst Gräfenberg (1881), Hans Schäfer (1927), and Max Morlock (1925).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim ranks 30. Before him are Theodor Escherich (1857), Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709), Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765), Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757), Friedrich Parrot (1791), and Hans Driesch (1867). After him are Carl Bernhard von Trinius (1778), Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775), Carl Gustav Carus (1789), Lorenz Oken (1779), Willi Hennig (1913), and Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (1797).

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