BIOLOGIST

Jakob von Uexküll

1864 - 1944

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Jakob Johann Freiherr von Uexküll (German: [ˈʏkskʏl]; 8 September [O.S. 27 August] 1864 – 25 July 1944) was a Baltic German biologist who worked in the fields of muscular physiology and animal behaviour studies and was an influence on the cybernetics of life. However, his most notable contribution is the notion of Umwelt, used by semiotician Thomas Sebeok and philosopher Martin Heidegger. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jakob von Uexküll has received more than 237,776 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Jakob von Uexküll is the 178th most popular biologist (down from 156th in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from Estonia (down from 21st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Estonian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jakob von Uexküll ranks 178 out of 1,097. Before him are John Boyd Orr, Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Ana Aslan, Wilhelm Johannsen, George Wald, and Giuseppe Acerbi. After him are Theodor Escherich, Anna Atkins, George Robert Gray, Georg Wilhelm Steller, Peter Medawar, and Stephen Jay Gould.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Jakob von Uexküll ranks 41. Before him are Ethel Voynich, Draga Mašin, Alfred Redl, John Jacob Astor IV, Eugen d'Albert, and Kikunae Ikeda. After him are Qi Baishi, Joseph Bédier, Séraphine Louis, Alfred Stieglitz, Tanaka Giichi, and Auguste Charlois. Among people deceased in 1944, Jakob von Uexküll ranks 78. Before him are Missak Manouchian, Paul Poiret, Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg, Friedrich Dollmann, Paul Cornu, and Milan Hodža. After him are James McKeen Cattell, Viktor Ullmann, E. M. Antoniadi, Vera Menchik, Thomas Midgley Jr., and Paul Otlet.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Jakob von Uexküll ranks 24 out of 351. Before him are Jacob De la Gardie (1583), Kaja Kallas (1977), Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803), Siim Kallas (1948), Paul von Rennenkampf (1854), and Evald Aav (1900). After him are Ernst Öpik (1893), Thomas Johann Seebeck (1770), Kersti Kaljulaid (1969), Jaan Kross (1920), Otto von Kotzebue (1787), and Johan Laidoner (1884).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Estonia

Among biologists born in Estonia, Jakob von Uexküll ranks 2. Before him are Karl Ernst von Baer (1792). After him are Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz (1793).

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