BIOLOGIST

Johann Hermann

1738 - 1800

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Johann, or Jean-Frederic, Hermann, or Herrmann, (31 December 1738 in Barr, Alsace – 4 October 1800 in Strasbourg) was a French physician and naturalist. In 1769 he was appointed professor of medicine at the School of Public Health of Strasbourg, then, in 1778, professor of philosophy, before going on, in 1784, to succeed Jacob Reinbold Spielmann as chair of chemistry, natural history and materia medica. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Hermann has received more than 40,147 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Hermann is the 291st most popular biologist (down from 258th in 2019), the 2,399th most popular biography from France (down from 2,294th in 2019) and the 35th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Hermann ranks 291 out of 1,097. Before him are Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, Martin Vahl, Josif Pančić, Hieronymus Bock, Rudolf Weigl, and Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest. After him are Carl Hagenbeck, Leopold Fitzinger, Otto Brunfels, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Carl Nägeli, and Friedrich Loeffler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1738, Johann Hermann ranks 15. Before him are Ethan Allen, Thomas Abbt, Arthur Phillip, Jacques François Dugommier, Aleijadinho, and William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland. After him are Benjamin West, Richard Montgomery, Jacques-André Naigeon, Adolphus Frederick IV, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Jacques Delille, and Frederick Augustus, Duke of Nassau. Among people deceased in 1800, Johann Hermann ranks 15. Before him are Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, George XII of Georgia, Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignano, Jean-Antoine Marbot, Salomon Maimon, and Lorenzo Mascheroni. After him are Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, Jean-Étienne Championnet, François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé, Michał Kazimierz Ogiński, Koca Yusuf Pasha, and Friedrich Gilly.

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In France

Among people born in France, Johann Hermann ranks 2,399 out of 6,770. Before him are Dominique Vandamme (1770), Claude Bolling (1930), Jules Perrot (1810), Marcel Dalio (1899), Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784), and Paul Féval, père (1816). After him are Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate (1652), Urbain Grandier (1590), Charles Munch (1891), Michel-Gabriel Paccard (1757), Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey (1754), and Charles de Brosses (1709).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Johann Hermann ranks 35. Before him are Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763), Jérôme Lejeune (1926), Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756), René Louiche Desfontaines (1750), Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777), and Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784). After him are Félix d'Herelle (1873), Charles Plumier (1646), Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (1801), Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805), Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1752), and Charles Chamberland (1851).

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