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BIOLOGIST

Johan Christian Fabricius

1745 - 1808

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Johan Christian Fabricius (7 January 1745 – 3 March 1808) was a Danish zoologist, specialising in "Insecta", which at that time included all arthropods: insects, arachnids, crustaceans and others. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johan Christian Fabricius has received more than 187,110 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia. Johan Christian Fabricius is the 159th most popular biologist (down from 124th in 2019), the 133rd most popular biography from Denmark (down from 128th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Danish Biologist.

Johan Christian Fabricius is most famous for his discovery of the parasitic worm that causes elephantiasis.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johan Christian Fabricius ranks 159 out of 841Before him are John James Audubon, Mario Capecchi, Mikhail Tsvet, J. Michael Bishop, Jakob von Uexküll, and Olaus Rudbeck. After him are Paul Greengard, Anna Atkins, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Peter Medawar, Erwin Neher, and Bert Sakmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1745, Johan Christian Fabricius ranks 12Before him are Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria, Carl Stamitz, Levin August von Bennigsen, Andrianampoinimerina, Fyodor Ushakov, and Valentin Haüy. After him are Johan Gottlieb Gahn, Şahin Giray, Mihrişah Sultan, Casimir Pulaski, George Atwood, and Olaudah Equiano. Among people deceased in 1808, Johan Christian Fabricius ranks 8Before him are Christian VII of Denmark, Mustafa IV, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov, John Dickinson, and Hubert Robert. After him are Carl Gotthard Langhans, Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus, Paul Wranitzky, Princess Marie of Baden, and Gaétan Vestris.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Johan Christian Fabricius ranks 133 out of 893Before him are Tove Ditlevsen (1917), Princess Charlotte of Denmark (1789), Anna Ancher (1859), Lars Ulrich (1963), Jussi Adler-Olsen (1950), and Brigitte Nielsen (1963). After him are Aksel Sandemose (1899), Ulrich Salchow (1877), Piet Hein (1905), Magnus, Duke of Holstein (1540), Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776), and Theophil Hansen (1813).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Denmark

Among biologists born in Denmark, Johan Christian Fabricius ranks 3Before him are Hans Christian Gram (1853) and Wilhelm Johannsen (1857). After him are Erik Pontoppidan (1698), Christen C. Raunkiær (1860), Eugenius Warming (1841), Emil Christian Hansen (1842), Otto Friedrich Müller (1730), Morten Thrane Brünnich (1737), Johan Lange (1818), Johannes Schmidt (1877), and Nathaniel Wallich (1786).