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Jacob Christian Schäffer

1718 - 1790

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Jacob Christian Schäffer, alternatively Jakob, (31 May 1718 – 5 January 1790) was a German dean, professor, botanist, mycologist, entomologist, ornithologist and inventor. Initially studying Theology at the University of Halle, he later became a teacher in Ratisbon. Following that, he became a pastor and later dean of a pastor and dean of the parish. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacob Christian Schäffer has received more than 70,785 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Jacob Christian Schäffer is the 278th most popular biologist (up from 663rd in 2019), the 2,303rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,688th in 2019) and the 45th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jacob Christian Schäffer ranks 278 out of 841. Before him are Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, Valerius Cordus, Carl Hagenbeck, Arthur Tansley, Thomas Cavalier-Smith, and Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart. After him are Alexander von Middendorff, Marie Stopes, Johann Bauhin, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, and Vladimir Demikhov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1718, Jacob Christian Schäffer ranks 10. Before him are Anna Leopoldovna, Thomas Chippendale, Alexander Roslin, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, Nikita Ivanovich Panin, and Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux. After him are Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Antoine de Chézy, Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, John Canton, Johan Ernst Gunnerus, and Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix. Among people deceased in 1790, Jacob Christian Schäffer ranks 12. Before him are Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy, Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Johann Bernhard Basedow, András Hadik, Mohammed ben Abdallah, and Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha. After him are Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, Duchess of Massa, William Cullen, Johann II Bernoulli, Flora MacDonald, Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, and William Livingston.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jacob Christian Schäffer ranks 2,303 out of 6,142. Before him are Heinz Rühmann (1902), George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven (1892), Wilhelm Worringer (1881), Heinz G. Konsalik (1921), Sami Khedira (1987), and Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden (1704). After him are Prince William of Hesse-Kassel (1787), Hans Albers (1891), Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1794), Adolf von Henselt (1814), Felix Bernstein (1878), and Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1814).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Jacob Christian Schäffer ranks 45. Before him are Hermann Schlegel (1804), Eduard Rüppell (1794), Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809), Fritz Müller (1822), Valerius Cordus (1515), and Carl Hagenbeck (1844). After him are Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794), Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802), Wilhelm Peters (1815), Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (1797), Christian Ludwig Brehm (1787), and Karl Möbius (1825).

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