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 28,541 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst is the 414th most popular biologist (down from 346th in 2019), the 3,107th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,740th in 2019) and the 81st most popular German Biologist.

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Over the past year Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst has had the most page views in the with 2,864 views, followed by Spanish (690), and German (627). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (51.75%), Galician (40.95%), and Slovak (29.29%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst ranks 414 out of 1,097. Before him are Karl Eichwald, Peter Artedi, C. L. Gloger, Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, Johann Jakob Heckel, and John Needham. After him are Guillaume Rondelet, Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Alexander Braun, George Robert Waterhouse, Pehr Kalm, and William Speirs Bruce.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst ranks 25. Before him are Joseph Banks, Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignano, Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau, and William Paley. After him are Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann, Johannes Ewald, Elisabeth Christina von Linné, Johann David Wyss, José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, and Marmaduke Tunstall. Among people deceased in 1807, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst ranks 18. Before him are Johannes Nikolaus Tetens, Jacob Philipp Hackert, Nikolai Rezanov, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, and Alexander Ypsilantis. After him are Franciszek Smuglewicz, Sophie von La Roche, Jeremias Benjamin Richter, Joseph Brant, Jean-François Rewbell, and Johann III Bernoulli.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst ranks 3,107 out of 7,253. Before him are Fritz Busch (1890), Magdalena Sibylla of Hesse-Darmstadt (1652), Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1752), John Casimir, Duke of Saxe-Coburg (1564), Ferdinand Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (1636), and Hans Herrmann (1928). After him are Georg Heinrich von Görtz (1668), Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg (1879), Moritz Hauptmann (1792), Louis Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (1731), William, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1593), and Princess Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1778).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst ranks 81. Before him are August Batsch (1761), Jean Cabanis (1816), Karl Möbius (1825), Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776), Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1627), and Johann Jakob Heckel (1790). After him are Alexander Braun (1805), Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied (1782), Georg von Langsdorff (1774), Paul Friedrich August Ascherson (1834), Lorenz Heister (1683), and Carl Friedrich von Ledebour (1786).

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