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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer

1672 - 1733

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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (2 August 1672 – 23 June 1733) was a Swiss physician and natural scientist born in Zürich. His most famous work was the Physica sacra in four volumes, which was a commentary on the Bible and included his view of the world, demonstrating a convergence of science and religion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Jakob Scheuchzer has received more than 47,394 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Johann Jakob Scheuchzer is the 393rd most popular physician (down from 347th in 2019), the 291st most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 255th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Swiss Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer ranks 393 out of 726. Before him are Petrus Camper, William Bayliss, Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Richard Wilhelm, Warren Sturgis McCulloch, and Peseshet. After him are Emil Aarestrup, Gregg L. Semenza, Wilhelm Griesinger, Theodor Meynert, Philip Showalter Hench, and Maximilian Bircher-Benner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1672, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer ranks 6. Before him are Peter the Great, Pylyp Orlyk, Joseph Addison, Nicolas de Grigny, and Ludovico Antonio Muratori. After him are Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, André Cardinal Destouches, Zhang Tingyu, Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Homburg, and Richard Steele. Among people deceased in 1733, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer ranks 12. Before him are Tsarevna Catherine Ivanovna of Russia, Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Robert de Visée, Nicolas Coustou, Princess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg, and Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg. After him are John Christian, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, Bernard Picart, Jakob Hermann, and Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer ranks 291 out of 1,015. Before him are Adolf Wölfli (1864), Kurt Koch (1950), Henri Druey (1799), Carl Lutz (1895), Heinrich Sutermeister (1910), and Joseph Deiss (1946). After him are Didier Burkhalter (1960), Ludwig Senfl (1486), Edmond Privat (1889), Max Abegglen (1902), Henri Colpi (1921), and Paul Grüninger (1891).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Switzerland

Among physicians born in Switzerland, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer ranks 11. Before him are Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926), Walter Rudolf Hess (1881), Alexandre Yersin (1863), Friedrich Miescher (1844), Albrecht von Haller (1708), and Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944). After him are Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867), Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777), Adolf Meyer (1866), Wilhelm His Sr. (1831), Paolo Macchiarini (1958), and Thomas Erastus (1524).

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