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BIOLOGIST

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst

1743 - 1807

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Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1 November 1743 – 5 November 1807) was a German naturalist and entomologist from Petershagen, Minden-Ravensberg. He served as a chaplain in the Prussian army. His marriage in Berlin, 1770, with Euphrosyne Luise Sophie (1742–1805), daughter of the Prussian Hofrat Libert Waldschmidt seems to have been childless.He was the joint editor, with Carl Gustav Jablonsky, of Naturgeschichte der in- und ausländischen Insekten (1785–1806, 10 volumes), which was one of the first attempts at a complete survey of the order Coleoptera. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst has received more than 28,768 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst is the 347th most popular biologist (down from 318th in 2019), the 2,743rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,408th in 2019) and the 65th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst ranks 347 out of 841. Before him are Charles Chamberland, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Eugen Fischer, and William Speirs Bruce. After him are Carl Sigismund Kunth, Göran Wahlenberg, Antonio José Cavanilles, Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau, Odoardo Beccari, and Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst ranks 25. Before him are Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, William Paley, Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignano, Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau, and Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann. After him are Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Johannes Ewald, Elisabeth Christina von Linné, José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, Johann David Wyss, and John Fitch. Among people deceased in 1807, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst ranks 17. Before him are Osman Pazvantoğlu, Jacob Philipp Hackert, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, Nikolai Rezanov, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, and Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil. After him are Alexander Ypsilantis, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens, Jeremias Benjamin Richter, Sophie von La Roche, Johann III Bernoulli, and Joseph Brant.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst ranks 2,743 out of 6,142. Before him are Regina Jonas (1902), Edmund Conen (1914), Paul Wallot (1841), Willi Graf (1918), Ludwig Richter (1803), and Hans von Kulmbach (1476). After him are Maximilian Fretter-Pico (1892), Kurt Hahn (1886), William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (1560), Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1727), Heinrich Marx (1777), and Fredrik Barth (1928).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst ranks 65. Before him are Carl Ludwig Blume (1796), Karl Koch (1809), Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775), Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823), Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (1665), and Eugen Fischer (1874). After him are Carl Sigismund Kunth (1788), Princess Therese of Bavaria (1850), Conrad Moench (1744), Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (1744), Otto Kuntze (1843), and Wilhelm Roux (1850).

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