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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 227,847 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Jakob von Uexküll is the 157th most popular biologist (down from 152nd in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Estonia (up from 22nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Estonian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jakob von Uexküll ranks 157 out of 841Before him are Susumu Tonegawa, Theodor Escherich, John James Audubon, Mario Capecchi, Mikhail Tsvet, and J. Michael Bishop. After him are Olaus Rudbeck, Johan Christian Fabricius, Paul Greengard, Anna Atkins, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, and Peter Medawar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Jakob von Uexküll ranks 43Before him are Ethel Voynich, Andrej Hlinka, Alfred Redl, Joseph Bédier, Draga Mašin, and Eugen d'Albert. After him are Qi Baishi, Peter Deunov, Robert E. Park, Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, Kikunae Ikeda, and Franz Oppenheimer. Among people deceased in 1944, Jakob von Uexküll ranks 69Before him are Christian Wirth, Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal, Günther Korten, Leo Baekeland, Harold Lowe, and Cécile Chaminade. After him are Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg, James McKeen Cattell, Erich Fellgiebel, Paul Poiret, Viktor Ullmann, and Paul Cornu.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Jakob von Uexküll ranks 21 out of 310Before him are Paul von Rennenkampf (1854), Jacob De la Gardie (1583), Felix Kersten (1898), Adolf von Harnack (1851), Thomas Johann Seebeck (1770), and Alar Karis (1958). After him are Kersti Kaljulaid (1969), Ernst Öpik (1893), Michael Sittow (1459), Otto von Kotzebue (1787), Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie (1622), and Alexander Gorchakov (1798).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Estonia

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