GEOLOGIST

Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

1902 - 1982

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Gustav Heinrich Ralph (often cited as G. H. R.) von Koenigswald (13 November 1902 – 10 July 1982) was a German-Dutch paleontologist and geologist who conducted research on hominins, including Homo erectus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald has received more than 81,653 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald is the 45th most popular geologist, the 4,245th most popular biography from Germany and the 7th most popular German Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald ranks 45 out of 90. Before him are Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, Arthur Holmes, John Phillips, Alexander Karpinsky, Carl Friedrich Schmidt, and Henryk Arctowski. After him are Richard Kirwan, Alfred Lacroix, Niles Eldredge, Luigi Palmieri, Gerard De Geer, and Henry Clifton Sorby.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald ranks 210. Before him are Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Strom Thurmond, Herma Szabo, Lūcija Garūta, Jean Grémillon, and Luo Ronghuan. After him are André Patry, Zaharia Stancu, Milman Parry, Paul Yoshigoro Taguchi, Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev, and Mario Magnozzi. Among people deceased in 1982, Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald ranks 174. Before him are Juan O'Gorman, Stanisław Ostrowski, Ludwig Bieberbach, Fernando Lamas, Allen Woodring, and Nikolai Kamanin. After him are Raghunath Murmu, Palden Thondup Namgyal, Lightnin' Hopkins, Robert Havemann, Boris Andreyev, and Tomás Romero Pereira.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald ranks 4,245 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Marie of Nassau (1825), Dorothee Sölle (1929), Peter Gay (1923), Anton-Günther, Duke of Oldenburg (1923), Ernst Albrecht (1907), and Ruth Westheimer (1928). After him are Gisela Arendt (1918), Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient (1804), Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster (1869), Wolfgang Staudte (1906), Ernst, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1859), and Rudi Fischer (1912).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among geologists born in Germany, Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald ranks 7. Before him are Alfred Wegener (1880), Friedrich Mohs (1773), Beno Gutenberg (1889), Christian Leopold von Buch (1774), Julius von Haast (1822), and Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann (1797). After him are Ferdinand von Hochstetter (1829), Ferdinand Zirkel (1838), Harry Rosenbusch (1836), Oskar Lenz (1848), and Rudolf Geiger (1894).

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