BIOLOGIST

Johann Baptist von Spix

1781 - 1826

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Johann Baptist Ritter von Spix (9 February 1781 – 13 March 1826) was a German biologist. From his expedition to Brazil, he brought to Germany a large variety of specimens of plants, insects, mammals, birds, amphibians and fish. They constitute an important basis for today's National Zoological Collection in Munich. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Baptist von Spix has received more than 66,866 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Johann Baptist von Spix is the 248th most popular biologist (down from 245th in 2019), the 1,975th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,094th in 2019) and the 39th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Baptist von Spix ranks 248 out of 1,097. Before him are Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, William Aiton, Antoine Béchamp, Carl Correns, Hermann Schlegel, and Martin Chalfie. After him are Henri Milne-Edwards, Richard Henderson, Alexander Georg von Bunge, Morten Thrane Brünnich, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, and Pierre Gaspard Chaumette.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1781, Johann Baptist von Spix ranks 20. Before him are David Brewster, Joseph Karl Stieler, Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Mauro Giuliani, Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, and Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este. After him are Andrés Bello, Swaminarayan, Adolphe Marbot, Friedrich von Berchtold, George Ord, and Valentín Gómez Farías. Among people deceased in 1826, Johann Baptist von Spix ranks 23. Before him are Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Johann Elert Bode, Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Franz Danzi, and Friedrich Krupp. After him are François-Joseph Talma, Nikolay Rumyantsev, Conrad Malte-Brun, Jean Lafitte, Shaykh Ahmad, and John Flaxman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Baptist von Spix ranks 1,975 out of 7,253. Before him are Christoph Schneider (1966), Alfred Schmidt (1931), Heinrich Schwarz (1906), Fritz Wunderlich (1930), Hieronymus Wolf (1516), and Benno (1010). After him are Philipp Veit (1793), Alexander Gauland (1941), Georg Lindemann (1884), Manfred Kaltz (1953), Hinrich Lohse (1896), and Jaromír, Duke of Bohemia (1000).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Johann Baptist von Spix ranks 39. Before him are Carl Gustav Carus (1789), Lorenz Oken (1779), Willi Hennig (1913), Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (1797), Carl Correns (1864), and Hermann Schlegel (1804). After him are Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1916), Eduard Rüppell (1794), Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767), Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809), Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802), and Wilhelm Peters (1815).

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