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BIOLOGIST

Johann Jakob Heckel

1790 - 1857

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Johann Jakob Heckel (23 January 1790 – 1 March 1857) was an Austrian taxidermist, zoologist, and ichthyologist from Mannheim in the Electoral Palatinate. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Jakob Heckel has received more than 38,916 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Jakob Heckel is the 745th most popular biologist (down from 486th in 2019), the 4,265th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,164th in 2019) and the 147th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Jakob Heckel ranks 745 out of 841Before him are David Goodall, James Francis Stephens, Jules Verreaux, Carlo Luigi Spegazzini, Curt Backeberg, and George Edwards. After him are G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Albert Charles Smith, Hermann Harms, Henry Nicholas Ridley, Johann Jakob Kaup, and William Henry Harvey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1790, Johann Jakob Heckel ranks 46Before him are Melchor Múzquiz, Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger, Letitia Christian Tyler, Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella, John Ross, and Francisco Ruiz-Tagle. After him are Tommaso Grossi, Francisco Javier de Istúriz y Montero, Abel P. Upshur, Mzilikazi, and John Eaton. Among people deceased in 1857, Johann Jakob Heckel ranks 51Before him are Carl Ludwig Koch, Johann Schweigger, Manuel José Quintana, Stefano Franscini, Johann Friedrich Naumann, and Karol Kurpiński. After him are Gulab Singh, Louis McLane, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Elisha Kent Kane, William L. Marcy, and David Thompson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Jakob Heckel ranks 4,265 out of 6,142Before him are Johann Mühlegg (1970), Curt Backeberg (1894), LeVar Burton (1957), Martin Hoffmann (1955), Halil Altıntop (1982), and Olaf Thon (1966). After him are Hans Cieslarczyk (1937), Franziskus von Bettinger (1850), Benedikt Höwedes (1988), Roland Grapow (1959), Hermann Harms (1870), and Michael Skibbe (1965).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Johann Jakob Heckel ranks 147Before him are August Batsch (1761), Karl Hugo Strunz (1910), Johann Christoph Wendland (1755), Jakob Emanuel Lange (1864), Karl Moritz Schumann (1851), and Curt Backeberg (1894). After him are Hermann Harms (1870), Johann Jakob Kaup (1803), Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (1805), Rodolfo Amando Philippi (1808), Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (1798), and Amalie Dietrich (1821).