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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 41,762 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Johann Jakob Scheuchzer is the 347th most popular physician (down from 343rd in 2019), the 255th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 247th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Swiss Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer ranks 347 out of 502Before him are Frances Oldham Kelsey, Petrus Camper, Carlos Chagas, Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Johann Peter Frank, and Carlos Finlay. After him are Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, Wu Lien-teh, Nikolai Korotkov, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Özlem Türeci, and Ibn Abi Usaibia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1672, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer ranks 5Before him are Peter the Great, Joseph Addison, Pylyp Orlyk, and Ludovico Antonio Muratori. After him are Nicolas de Grigny, Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, André Cardinal Destouches, Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, and Richard Steele. Among people deceased in 1733, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer ranks 10Before him are Tsarevna Catherine Ivanovna of Russia, Georg Böhm, Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Pieter van der Aa, Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg, and Robert de Visée. After him are Nicolas Coustou, John Christian, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, Princess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg, Jakob Hermann, and Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer ranks 255 out of 876Before him are Jacques-Laurent Agasse (1767), Princess Elena of Romania (1950), Domenico Trezzini (1670), Flavio Cotti (1939), R. Norris Williams (1891), and Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke (1861). After him are François-Alphonse Forel (1841), Hans-Rudolf Merz (1942), Jeremias Gotthelf (1797), Lucien Favre (1957), Gilberto Agustoni (1922), and Arthur Cravan (1887).

Among PHYSICIANS In Switzerland

Among physicians born in Switzerland, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer ranks 10Before him are Emil Theodor Kocher (1841), Friedrich Miescher (1844), Walter Rudolf Hess (1881), Alexandre Yersin (1863), Albrecht von Haller (1708), and Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944). After him are Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867), Adolf Meyer (1866), Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777), Thomas Erastus (1524), and Daniel Mojon (1963).