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Hieronymus Bock

1498 - 1554

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Hieronymus Bock (Latinised Hieronymus Tragus; c. 1498 – 21 February 1554) was a German botanist, physician, and Lutheran minister who began the transition from medieval botany to the modern scientific worldview by arranging plants by their relation or resemblance. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hieronymus Bock has received more than 80,526 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Hieronymus Bock is the 288th most popular biologist (down from 235th in 2019), the 2,274th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,037th in 2019) and the 48th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Hieronymus Bock ranks 288 out of 1,097. Before him are Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, David Baltimore, Johann Georg Christian Lehmann, Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, Martin Vahl, and Josif Pančić. After him are Rudolf Weigl, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, Johann Hermann, Carl Hagenbeck, Leopold Fitzinger, and Otto Brunfels.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1498, Hieronymus Bock ranks 12. Before him are Miguel da Paz, Prince of Portugal, Giulio Clovio, Sophie of Pomerania, Andrés de Urdaneta, Andreas Osiander, and Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne. After him are Moretto da Brescia, Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine, Felix Manz, Georg I, Count of Württemberg-Mömpelgard, and Conrad Grebel. Among people deceased in 1554, Hieronymus Bock ranks 9. Before him are Leo Africanus, John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, Sebastiano Serlio, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, João Manuel, Prince of Portugal, and Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk. After him are Sibylle of Cleves, Gaspara Stampa, Pedro Cieza de León, Moretto da Brescia, Marcantonio Trivisan, and Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hieronymus Bock ranks 2,274 out of 7,253. Before him are Joachim Schepke (1912), Georg Joseph Vogler (1749), Princess Marie Amelie of Baden (1817), Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918), Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803), and Bert Kaempfert (1923). After him are Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe (1871), Walther Gerlach (1889), Eugen Meindl (1892), Balthasar Hubmaier (1485), Nicholas Mercator (1620), and Friedrich von Gärtner (1791).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Hieronymus Bock ranks 48. Before him are Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767), Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809), Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802), Wilhelm Peters (1815), Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794), and Johann Georg Christian Lehmann (1792). After him are Carl Hagenbeck (1844), Otto Brunfels (1488), Friedrich Loeffler (1852), Conrad Moench (1744), Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725), and Albert Günther (1830).

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