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Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt

1885 - 1964

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Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (June 2, 1885 – December 30, 1964) was a German neurologist and neuropathologist. Although he is typically credited as the physician to first describe the Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, this has been disputed. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt has received more than 132,065 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt is the 556th most popular physician (down from 484th in 2019), the 4,387th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,798th in 2019) and the 93rd most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt ranks 556 out of 726. Before him are Serenus Sammonicus, Mustafa Barghouti, Thomas Francis Wade, Bidhan Chandra Roy, Erik Adolf von Willebrand, and Oswaldo Cruz. After him are Borzuya, Joep Lange, Ludwig Aschoff, Aemilia Hilaria, Ancel Keys, and Nikolay Burdenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt ranks 179. Before him are Alexandre Volkoff, Pierre Dupong, Duncan Grant, Juhan Kukk, Alicia Moreau de Justo, and Saneatsu Mushanokōji. After him are Alexander Tairov, Walter Anderson, Hasan Saka, Alfréd Haar, Stevan Hristić, and Martin Wagner. Among people deceased in 1964, Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt ranks 139. Before him are Lauge Koch, Eddie Cantor, Hans Moser, Hermann Barrelet, Vasily Agapkin, and Adolf Šimperský. After him are Reg Parnell, Felisberto Hernández, Erik Malmberg, Theodore Freeman, Agnes Miegel, and Nguyễn Văn Trỗi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt ranks 4,387 out of 7,253. Before him are Berthold Delbrück (1842), Rudi Assauer (1944), Georg Friedrich von Martens (1756), Olaf Thon (1966), Ralph Siegel (1945), and Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (1798). After him are Ludwig Lachmann (1906), Marianne Hoppe (1909), Johann Carl Fuhlrott (1803), Heinrich von Sybel (1817), Sonja Graf (1908), and Thomas Quasthoff (1959).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt ranks 93. Before him are Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar (1786), Frederic Lewy (1885), Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch (1771), Özlem Türeci (1967), Albrecht von Graefe (1828), and Franz Josef Ruprecht (1814). After him are Ludwig Aschoff (1866), Gustav Fischer (1848), Paul Hermann (1646), Julius Friedrich Cohnheim (1839), Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff (1807), and Edzard Ernst (1948).

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