CHEMIST

Hennig Brand

1630 - 1710

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Hennig Brand (German pronunciation: [ˈhɛnɪç bʁant]; c. 1630 – c. 1692 or c. 1710) was a German alchemist who lived and worked in Hamburg. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hennig Brand has received more than 327,275 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Hennig Brand is the 191st most popular chemist (down from 148th in 2019), the 1,016th most popular biography from Germany (down from 873rd in 2019) and the 39th most popular German Chemist.

Hennig is most famous for their apple cider vinegar.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Hennig Brand ranks 191 out of 602. Before him are John E. Walker, F. Sherwood Rowland, Nicolas Leblanc, Robert S. Mulliken, Emil Erlenmeyer, and Heinrich Gustav Magnus. After him are Roald Hoffmann, Alan MacDiarmid, Paul L. Modrich, Robert Curl, William Standish Knowles, and Louis Jacques Thénard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1630, Hennig Brand ranks 6. Before him are Charles II of England, Stenka Razin, Sophia of Hanover, Eleonora Gonzaga, and Madame de Brinvilliers. After him are Olaus Rudbeck, Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma, Ludolf Bakhuizen, Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria, Josefa de Óbidos, and Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt. Among people deceased in 1710, Hennig Brand ranks 4. Before him are Ole Rømer, Louise de La Vallière, and Emperor Higashiyama. After him are Bernardo Pasquini, Louis, Prince of Condé, Gaspar Sanz, Duchess Charlotte Felicitas of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Henry, Duke of Saxe-Römhild, and Gottfried Kirch.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hennig Brand ranks 1,016 out of 7,253. Before him are Peter Sloterdijk (1947), Manuel Neuer (1986), Herbert Gille (1897), Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg (1817), Heinrich Gustav Magnus (1802), and Emil Jellinek (1853). After him are Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1597), Gert Fröbe (1913), Hrotsvitha (935), Walter Röhrl (1947), Charles De Coster (1827), and Christian Wirth (1885).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Hennig Brand ranks 39. Before him are Johann Deisenhofer (1943), Robert Huber (1937), Ernst Chain (1906), August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818), Emil Erlenmeyer (1825), and Heinrich Gustav Magnus (1802). After him are Hermann Kolbe (1818), Gerhard Herzberg (1904), Friedrich Sertürner (1783), Franz Karl Achard (1753), Hartmut Michel (1948), and Henri Victor Regnault (1810).

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