BIOLOGIST

Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz

1722 - 1799

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Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz (Roodt-sur-Eisch, Luxembourg, 25 November 1722 – 18 January 1799, Judenburg, Austria) was a botanist and a physician. In 1750 he obtained his doctorate of medicine in Vienna, where he was a pupil of Gerard van Swieten (1700–1772). He studied obstetrics in Paris and London. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz has received more than 22,406 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz is the 351st most popular biologist (up from 407th in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from Luxembourg (up from 28th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Luxembourger Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz ranks 351 out of 1,097Before him are François-Alphonse Forel, Andrew Fire, Valerius Cordus, Ivan Regen, Anders Sparrman, and Carlo Allioni. After him are Fritz Müller, Christian Ludwig Brehm, Katsuko Saruhashi, Louis Claude Richard, Joel Asaph Allen, and Pierre Magnol.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1722, Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz ranks 19Before him are Leopold Auenbrugger, Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt, Paisius of Hilendar, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, Christian IV, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, and Nicolas Luckner. After him are John Burgoyne, Petrus Camper, Princess Gisela Agnes of Anhalt-Köthen, Princess Ulrike Friederike Wilhelmine of Hesse-Kassel, Anna Louisa Karsch, and Christopher Smart. Among people deceased in 1799, Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz ranks 22Before him are Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Jan Ingenhousz, Jean-Charles de Borda, Jean-François Marmontel, Johann Hedwig, and Barthélemy Catherine Joubert. After him are Pierre Pigneau de Behaine, Claude Balbastre, Marcus Elieser Bloch, Jean-Étienne Montucla, Patrick Henry, and Giuseppe Parini.

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In Luxembourg

Among people born in Luxembourg, Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz ranks 24 out of 95Before him are Nicolas Frantz (1899), Baldwin of Luxembourg (1285), Hermann von François (1856), Josy Barthel (1927), Xavier Bettel (1973), and Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Hohenberg (1922). After him are Michel Théato (1878), Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1981), Archduchess Marie Astrid of Austria (1954), Camillo Felgen (1920), Viviane Reding (1951), and Sylvain Arend (1902).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Luxembourg

Among biologists born in Luxembourg, Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz ranks 2Before him are Jules A. Hoffmann (1941).