New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

BIOLOGIST

Jacob Sturm

1771 - 1848

Photo of Jacob Sturm

Icon of person Jacob Sturm

Jacob Sturm (21 March 1771 – 28 November 1848) was a leading engraver of entomological and botanical scientific publications in Germany at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. He was born and lived in Nuremberg and was the only son of engraver Johann Georg Sturm (1742-1793), who trained him in drawing and copperplate engraving. Sturm became a celebrated insect collector and founded the Nuremberg Society for Natural History. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacob Sturm has received more than 20,124 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Jacob Sturm is the 467th most popular biologist (up from 499th in 2019), the 3,423rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,208th in 2019) and the 93rd most popular German Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 20k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Jacob Sturms by language


Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jacob Sturm ranks 467 out of 841. Before him are Gregory Winter, Jacob Georg Agardh, W. D. Hamilton, Kaspar Maria von Sternberg, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, and Jean Victoir Audouin. After him are Richard Lydekker, Alexander Kovalevsky, Albrecht Wilhelm Roth, Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, Joseph Paul Gaimard, and Craig Mello.

Most Popular Biologists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1771, Jacob Sturm ranks 32. Before him are Fra Diavolo, Nikolay Raevsky, Pierre Baillot, Jean Reynier, Caroline of Hesse-Homburg, and Pierre-François Bouchard. After him are Charles Brockden Brown, Józef Chłopicki, Thomas Wedgwood, Karl Rudolphi, Ivan Martinov, and George Bass. Among people deceased in 1848, Jacob Sturm ranks 47. Before him are Branwell Brontë, Francis Crozier, Joseph Görres, Sarah Fuller Flower Adams, Petrobey Mavromichalis, and Mastoureh Ardalan. After him are Martinus Rørbye, Georg August Goldfuss, Steen Steensen Blicher, Gabriel Bibron, Vasily Stasov, and George W. Campbell.

Others Born in 1771

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1848

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jacob Sturm ranks 3,423 out of 6,142. Before him are Michael Gielen (1927), Gisela Mauermayer (1913), Philip II, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1559), Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau (1799), Grete Stern (1904), and Theodor Plievier (1892). After him are Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1713), Konrad Ernst Ackermann (1712), Adam Gottlob Moltke (1710), Hermann Muhs (1894), Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve (1638), and Heinrich Hübschmann (1848).

Others born in Germany

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Jacob Sturm ranks 93. Before him are Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776), Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider (1750), Carl Friedrich von Ledebour (1786), Otto Wilhelm Thomé (1840), Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845), and Otto von Münchhausen (1716). After him are Albrecht Wilhelm Roth (1757), Jean Cabanis (1816), Karl Friedrich von Gaertner (1772), Johann Friedrich Meckel (1781), Emilie Snethlage (1868), and Franz von Paula Schrank (1747).

German born Biologists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous
  • DatawheelCL