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Heinrich von Kittlitz

1799 - 1874

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Friedrich Heinrich, Freiherr von Kittlitz (16 February 1799 – 10 April 1874) was a Prussian artist, naval officer, explorer and naturalist. He was a descendant of a family of old Prussian nobility ("Freiherr" meaning "independent lord" - ranking with a baron). He collected specimens and made illustrations on major expeditions and wrote a few books on his travels. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich von Kittlitz has received more than 16,728 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Heinrich von Kittlitz is the 602nd most popular biologist (up from 635th in 2019), the 858th most popular biography from Poland (up from 869th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Polish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Heinrich von Kittlitz ranks 602 out of 1,097. Before him are Edouard Van Beneden, Carl Chun, Charles Antoine Lemaire, Eduard Friedrich Poeppig, René Dubos, and Jack Horner. After him are Ludwig Diels, Richard Lydekker, Philip Henry Gosse, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps, Fritz Schaudinn, and Martin Rathke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Heinrich von Kittlitz ranks 42. Before him are Alexander Petrov, Nathaniel Palmer, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, Manuel Bulnes, Joachim Barrande, and Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau. After him are Imre Frivaldszky, David Don, Fyodor Bruni, Heinrich von Gagern, Amos Bronson Alcott, and Frederick Catherwood. Among people deceased in 1874, Heinrich von Kittlitz ranks 38. Before him are Abraham Geiger, Carl Meissner, Gustaaf Wappers, Jules Janin, Princess Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont. After him are John Phillips, Fritz Reuter, Victor Baltard, Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger, Vilém Blodek, and Jean Cruveilhier.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Heinrich von Kittlitz ranks 858 out of 1,694. Before him are Heinrich von Stephan (1831), Kornel Morawiecki (1941), Hans Baluschek (1870), Anna Dymna (1951), Ulli Lommel (1944), and Jerzy Żuławski (1874). After him are Jacek Gmoch (1939), Albert Chmielowski (1846), Eugene Lazowski (1913), Jędrzej Moraczewski (1870), Jurek Becker (1937), and Henryk Sławik (1894).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Poland

Among biologists born in Poland, Heinrich von Kittlitz ranks 9. Before him are Georg Forster (1754), Adolf Engler (1844), Johann Reinhold Forster (1729), Julius von Sachs (1832), C. L. Gloger (1803), and Gustav Radde (1831). After him are Martin Rathke (1793), Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884), Władysław Taczanowski (1819), Michael Sela (1924), Wilhelm Hemprich (1796), and Heinrich Göppert (1800).

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