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Johann Elert Bode

1747 - 1826

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Johann Elert Bode (German: [ˈboːdə]; 19 January 1747 – 23 November 1826) was a German astronomer known for his reformulation and popularisation of the Titius–Bode law. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Elert Bode has received more than 156,199 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Johann Elert Bode is the 96th most popular astronomer (down from 95th in 2019), the 1,171st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,160th in 2019) and the 18th most popular German Astronomer.

Johann Elert Bode (1747-1826) was a German astronomer who is most famous for his law of planetary distances.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Johann Elert Bode ranks 96 out of 644. Before him are Girolamo Fracastoro, Johann Palisa, Karl Ludwig Hencke, Petrus Apianus, Johann Adam Schall von Bell, and Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth. After him are Wilhelm Tempel, Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Reinhard Genzel, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, and Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1747, Johann Elert Bode ranks 6. Before him are Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Abraham-Louis Breguet, Roger Ducos, and Vivant Denon. After him are Rose Bertin, Gottfried August Bürger, Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe, Princess Wilhelmina Caroline of Denmark, Leopold Koželuch, and Infante Philip, Duke of Calabria. Among people deceased in 1826, Johann Elert Bode ranks 18. Before him are Elizabeth Alexeievna, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Levin August von Bennigsen, Frederica of Baden, Nikolay Karamzin, and Marie-Guillemine Benoist. After him are Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Franz Danzi, Friedrich Krupp, Johann Baptist von Spix, and François-Joseph Talma.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Elert Bode ranks 1,171 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929), Gottfried Benn (1886), Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (1575), Rudolf von Sebottendorf (1875), Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856), and Alfred Krupp (1812). After him are Mesut Özil (1988), Franz Josef Strauss (1915), Horst Tappert (1923), Friedrich Kuhlau (1786), Wilhelm Tempel (1821), and Anna Maria van Schurman (1607).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Johann Elert Bode ranks 18. Before him are Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793), Walter Baade (1893), David Fabricius (1564), Petrus Apianus (1495), Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1591), and Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (1892). After him are Wilhelm Tempel (1821), Reinhard Genzel (1952), Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813), Karl Ludwig Harding (1765), Heinrich Schwabe (1789), and Hermann Goldschmidt (1802).

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