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BIOLOGIST

Johann Friedrich von Brandt

1802 - 1879

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Johann Friedrich von Brandt (25 May 1802 – 15 July 1879) was a German-Russian naturalist, who worked mostly in Russia. Brandt was born in Jüterbog and educated at a gymnasium in Wittenberg and the University of Berlin. In 1831 he emigrated to Russia, and soon was appointed director of the Zoological Museum of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Friedrich von Brandt has received more than 64,077 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Johann Friedrich von Brandt is the 283rd most popular biologist (down from 261st in 2019), the 2,318th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,146th in 2019) and the 47th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Friedrich von Brandt ranks 283 out of 841Before him are Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, Jacob Christian Schäffer, Alexander von Middendorff, Marie Stopes, Johann Bauhin, and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius. After him are Vladimir Demikhov, Pierre Edmond Boissier, Wilhelm Peters, Nikolai Severtzov, John Hughlings Jackson, and Othenio Abel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Johann Friedrich von Brandt ranks 27Before him are Alcide d'Orbigny, Charles Auguste de Bériot, Carl Ritter von Ghega, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, Frederick William, Elector of Hesse, and Harriet Martineau. After him are Arnold Ruge, Paul-Émile Botta, Mariano Arista, Niccolò Tommaseo, Princess Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, and Cesare Pugni. Among people deceased in 1879, Johann Friedrich von Brandt ranks 26Before him are Karl Friedrich Mohr, William, Prince of Orange, August Grisebach, Baldomero Espartero, Camille Doncieux, and Prince Henry of the Netherlands. After him are Begum Hazrat Mahal, Karl Koch, Duke William of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Ludwig Reichenbach, Michel Chevalier, and Sergey Solovyov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Friedrich von Brandt ranks 2,318 out of 6,142Before him are Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794), Eugen Ritter von Schobert (1883), Albert of Saxony (1316), Hans Schäfer (1927), Hermann Scherchen (1891), and Gertrude of Saxony (1030). After him are Jan Assmann (1938), Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1819), Arnold Ruge (1802), Hinrich Lichtenstein (1780), Marco Reus (1989), and Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis (1706).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Johann Friedrich von Brandt ranks 47Before him are Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809), Fritz Müller (1822), Valerius Cordus (1515), Carl Hagenbeck (1844), Jacob Christian Schäffer (1718), and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794). After him are Wilhelm Peters (1815), Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (1797), Christian Ludwig Brehm (1787), Karl Möbius (1825), Theodor Boveri (1862), and Lorenz Oken (1779).