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Johann Georg Gmelin

1709 - 1755

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Johann Georg Gmelin (8 August 1709 – 20 May 1755) was a German naturalist, botanist and geographer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Georg Gmelin has received more than 39,334 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Johann Georg Gmelin is the 41st most popular geographer (down from 39th in 2019), the 2,319th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,964th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Geographer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Johann Georg Gmelin ranks 41 out of 86. Before him are Jovan Cvijić, Vincenzo Coronelli, Jodocus Hondius, Alfred Hettner, Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, and Otto Nordenskjöld. After him are Conrad Malte-Brun, Erich von Drygalski, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, Marie Tharp, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani, and Jan Janssonius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1709, Johann Georg Gmelin ranks 15. Before him are Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, Georg Wilhelm Steller, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, Tokugawa Ietsugu, Alexei Razumovsky, and Charles de Brosses. After him are Franz Xaver Richter, Étienne de Silhouette, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, John Cleland, Francesco Araja, and Antonio Rinaldi. Among people deceased in 1755, Johann Georg Gmelin ranks 10. Before him are Princess Albertina Frederica of Baden-Durlach, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Johann Georg Pisendel, Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, and Jean-Baptiste Oudry. After him are Johann Georg Christian, Prince of Lobkowicz, Philipp Stamma, Zhang Tingyu, Edward Braddock, Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, and Stepan Krasheninnikov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Georg Gmelin ranks 2,319 out of 7,253. Before him are Paul von Hase (1885), Princess Eleonore Erdmuthe of Saxe-Eisenach (1662), Hermann Breith (1892), Karl Friedrich Mohr (1806), Erich Mühsam (1878), and Winrich von Kniprode (1310). After him are Wilhelm Filchner (1877), Friedrich Loeffler (1852), Paul Lincke (1866), Louis III, Elector Palatine (1378), Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1763), and Walter Brandmüller (1929).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among geographers born in Germany, Johann Georg Gmelin ranks 7. Before him are Alexander von Humboldt (1769), Carl Ritter (1779), Martin Waldseemüller (1470), Sebastian Münster (1488), Albrecht Penck (1858), and Alfred Hettner (1859). After him are Hans Meyer (1858), August Heinrich Petermann (1822), Peter Schenk the Elder (1660), Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724), Adolf Stieler (1775), and Richard Andree (1835).

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