BIOLOGIST

Johann Friedrich Naumann

1780 - 1857

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Johann Friedrich Naumann (14 February 1780 – 15 August 1857) was a German scientist, engraver, and editor. He is regarded as the founder of scientific ornithology in Europe. He published The Natural History of German Birds (1820–1844) and The Eggs of German Birds (1818–1828). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Friedrich Naumann has received more than 30,456 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Johann Friedrich Naumann is the 528th most popular biologist (up from 582nd in 2019), the 3,745th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,818th in 2019) and the 114th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Friedrich Naumann ranks 528 out of 1,097Before him are Wilhelm Hofmeister, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Franz von Paula Schrank, Emil Racoviță, and Patrick Manson. After him are Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider, Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal, Frederic Clements, Basilius Besler, Gustav Radde, and Craig Mello.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1780, Johann Friedrich Naumann ranks 38Before him are Juana Azurduy de Padilla, Alexey Venetsianov, Richard Mentor Johnson, Johannes van den Bosch, Fulgencio Yegros, and José Joaquín de Olmedo. After him are Henri Braconnot, Karoline von Günderrode, Henry Salt, Léon Jean Marie Dufour, Piet Retief, and Elizabeth Fry. Among people deceased in 1857, Johann Friedrich Naumann ranks 48Before him are Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy, Abe Masahiro, Abraham Jacob van der Aa, Wei Yuan, Frederick Scott Archer, and Juan Lindo. After him are Johann Schweigger, Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer, Stefano Franscini, Manuel José Quintana, Karol Kurpiński, and Louis McLane.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Naumann ranks 3,745 out of 7,253Before him are Theo Adam (1926), Joseph Helffrich (1890), Rosi Mittermaier (1950), Jan Boeckhorst (1604), Friedrich von Huene (1875), and Sophia Hedwig of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1592). After him are Adolf Bernhard Marx (1795), Hermann Conring (1606), Rudolph Augustus, Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1627), Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider (1750), Prince William of Schaumburg-Lippe (1834), and Siegfried Kasche (1903).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Naumann ranks 114Before him are Karl Friedrich von Gaertner (1772), Adolf Mayer (1843), Johann Julius Walbaum (1724), Albrecht Wilhelm Roth (1757), Wilhelm Hofmeister (1824), and Franz von Paula Schrank (1747). After him are Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider (1750), Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (1794), Basilius Besler (1561), Albrecht Thaer (1752), Johann Friedrich Meckel (1781), and Otto von Münchhausen (1716).