BIOLOGIST

Jacob Sturm

1771 - 1848

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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 22,186 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Jacob Sturm is the 578th most popular biologist (down from 466th in 2019), the 3,961st most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,420th in 2019) and the 129th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jacob Sturm ranks 578 out of 1,097. Before him are Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Sewall Wright, Alessandra Giliani, Elisabeth Christina von Linné, Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer, and William Elford Leach. After him are George Allman, Georg August Schweinfurth, Harold E. Varmus, Edmond Albius, Carl Axel Magnus Lindman, and Franz Unger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1771, Jacob Sturm ranks 36. Before him are Pierre Baillot, Vincenzo Camuccini, Ivan Martinov, Józef Chłopicki, Caroline of Hesse-Homburg, and Germanos III of Old Patras. After him are Jean Broc, Jean Reynier, Joseph Diez Gergonne, Karl Rudolphi, Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch, and George Bass. Among people deceased in 1848, Jacob Sturm ranks 50. Before him are Ludwig Leichhardt, Yevhen Hrebinka, Sarah Fuller Flower Adams, Martinus Rørbye, Jaime Balmes, and Francis Crozier. After him are Steen Steensen Blicher, George W. Campbell, Vasily Stasov, Felix Lichnowsky, Pedro Vélez, and Heinrich Zschokke.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jacob Sturm ranks 3,961 out of 7,253. Before him are Philip II, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels (1541), Peter Schenk the Elder (1660), Leopold III, Prince of Lippe (1821), Duke Georg August of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1824), Ernest Oppenheimer (1880), and Markus Söder (1967). After him are Carl Dahlhaus (1928), Theodor Benfey (1809), Philipp Nicolai (1556), Emil von Sauer (1862), Walter Burkert (1931), and Georg Buschner (1925).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Jacob Sturm ranks 129. Before him are Oscar Hertwig (1849), Karl Alfred von Zittel (1839), Eduard August von Regel (1815), Blasius Merrem (1761), Johann Heinrich Blasius (1809), and Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer (1782). After him are Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727), Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (1817), Erwin Stresemann (1889), Carl Chun (1852), Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (1798), and Ludwig Diels (1874).

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