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 41,237 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Johann Jakob Heckel is the 412th most popular biologist (up from 744th in 2019), the 3,092nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,251st in 2019) and the 80th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Jakob Heckel ranks 412 out of 1,097. Before him are Emil Christian Hansen, Georg Eberhard Rumphius, Karl Eichwald, Peter Artedi, C. L. Gloger, and Adrien-Henri de Jussieu. After him are John Needham, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, Guillaume Rondelet, Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Alexander Braun, and George Robert Waterhouse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1790, Johann Jakob Heckel ranks 26. Before him are Leopold, Prince of Salerno, Keisai Eisen, John Cockerill, Karol Lipiński, William Smith, and Manuel Blanco Encalada. After him are James Pradier, Claude Pouillet, Nassau William Senior, Ferenc Kölcsey, Simon von Stampfer, and Ferdinand Raimund. Among people deceased in 1857, Johann Jakob Heckel ranks 38. Before him are Augustinos Kapodistrias, Christian Daniel Rauch, Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, William Brown, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, and Agustina de Aragón. After him are William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, Carl Ludwig Koch, Johann Georg Hiedler, Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy, Abe Masahiro, and Abraham Jacob van der Aa.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Jakob Heckel ranks 3,092 out of 7,253. Before him are Max Wünsche (1914), Johannes Lingelbach (1622), Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1620), Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1819), Theodor Meynert (1833), and E. F. Schumacher (1911). After him are Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths (1759), Roland Matthes (1950), Cornelia Froboess (1943), Max von Oppenheim (1860), Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1800), and Ernst Ziller (1837).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Johann Jakob Heckel ranks 80. Before him are Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (1805), August Batsch (1761), Jean Cabanis (1816), Karl Möbius (1825), Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776), and Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1627). After him are Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743), Alexander Braun (1805), Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied (1782), Georg von Langsdorff (1774), Paul Friedrich August Ascherson (1834), and Lorenz Heister (1683).

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