BIOLOGIST

Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben

1744 - 1777

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Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (German: [ˈjoːhan ˈkʁɪsti̯a(ː)n ˈpɔlykaʁp ˈɛʁksˌleːbn̩]; 22 June 1744 – 19 August 1777) was a German naturalist from Quedlinburg. Erxleben was professor of physics and veterinary medicine at the University of Göttingen. He wrote Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre (1772) and Systema regni animalis (1777). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben has received more than 82,221 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben is the 369th most popular biologist (down from 366th in 2019), the 2,820th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,858th in 2019) and the 67th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben ranks 369 out of 1,097. Before him are Arthur Tansley, John Gould, Karl Koch, Robert Gallo, John Hughlings Jackson, and Georg Joseph Kamel. After him are Eugen Fischer, Daniel Solander, Johann Jakob von Tschudi, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, René Lesson, and Brian Kobilka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1744, Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben ranks 16. Before him are Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel, Conrad Moench, Giacomo Quarenghi, Elbridge Gerry, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, and Anne Vallayer-Coster. After him are Marianna Martines, Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, Eise Eisinga, Micaela Bastidas, Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, and Nikolay Novikov. Among people deceased in 1777, Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben ranks 12. Before him are Maxim Berezovsky, Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Charles de Brosses, Infante Philip, Duke of Calabria, Johann Andreas Segner, and Charles-Joseph Natoire. After him are Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz, Dai Zhen, Alexander Sumarokov, Bernard de Jussieu, Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, and William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben ranks 2,820 out of 7,253. Before him are Duke George of Oldenburg (1784), Nikolaus Federmann (1505), Valentin Weigel (1533), Adam Kraft (1450), Hermann von Fehling (1812), and August Heissmeyer (1897). After him are Eugen Fischer (1874), Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken (1385), Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1889), Gerhard Gentzen (1909), Franz Lachner (1803), and Otto Deßloch (1889).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben ranks 67. Before him are Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (1811), Valerius Cordus (1515), Fritz Müller (1822), Christian Ludwig Brehm (1787), Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (1665), and Karl Koch (1809). After him are Eugen Fischer (1874), Theodor Boveri (1862), Ludwig Reichenbach (1793), Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823), Ernst Schäfer (1910), and Princess Therese of Bavaria (1850).

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