BIOLOGIST

Johann August Ephraim Goeze

1731 - 1793

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Johann August Ephraim Goeze (German: [joˈhan ˈʔaʊɡʊst ˈʔeːfʁa.ɪm ˈɡœtsə]; 28 May 1731 – 27 June 1793) was a German zoologist, born in Aschersleben. He is known for the discovery of tardigrades, also called water bears. He was the son of Johann Heinrich and Catherine Margarete (née Kirchhoff). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann August Ephraim Goeze has received more than 89,982 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann August Ephraim Goeze is the 880th most popular biologist, the 5,055th most popular biography from Germany and the 183rd most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann August Ephraim Goeze ranks 880 out of 1,097. Before him are Georg Ossian Sars, Jakob Emanuel Lange, Carl Eduard Hellmayr, Reginald Innes Pocock, Charles Tate Regan, and Charles Conrad Abbott. After him are Gilbert Thomas Burnett, Sam Harris, Benjamin Smith Barton, Gaetano Savi, Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw, and Theobald Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1731, Johann August Ephraim Goeze ranks 22. Before him are Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Charles Lee, Victor Louis, Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, Benjamin Banneker, and Catharine Macaulay. After him are Samuel Huntington, and Robert Treat Paine. Among people deceased in 1793, Johann August Ephraim Goeze ranks 48. Before him are Katsukawa Shunshō, Carl Gustaf Pilo, Anton Friedrich Büsching, Roger Sherman, Timur Shah Durrani, and William Robertson. After him are Gilbert White, and Peter Perez Burdett.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann August Ephraim Goeze ranks 5,055 out of 7,253. Before him are Christopher Franke (1953), Michael Müller (1964), Gerd Hornberger (1910), Karl Schorn (1803), Rosemarie Trockel (1952), and Lida Heymann (1868). After him are Douglas Coupland (1961), Henriette Reker (1956), Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (1878), Lars Eidinger (1976), Käthe Krauss (1906), and Thomas Munkelt (1952).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Johann August Ephraim Goeze ranks 183. Before him are Max Fürbringer (1846), Eduard von Martens (1831), Heinrich Moritz Willkomm (1821), Gustav Lindau (1866), Hermann Harms (1870), and Jakob Emanuel Lange (1864). After him are Otto Bütschli (1848), Ludwig Carl Christian Koch (1825), George Engelmann (1809), Johann Wilhelm Meigen (1764), Rudolf Schlechter (1872), and Alexander Wendt (1958).

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