1672 - 1733
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, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer ranks 347 out of 502. Before 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.
1914 - 2015
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 341
1722 - 1789
HPI: 53.17
Rank: 342
1879 - 1934
HPI: 53.16
Rank: 343
1660 - 1740
HPI: 53.10
Rank: 344
1745 - 1821
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 345
1833 - 1915
HPI: 53.06
Rank: 346
1672 - 1733
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 347
1819 - 1892
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 348
1879 - 1960
HPI: 52.98
Rank: 349
1874 - 1920
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 350
1816 - 1880
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 351
1967 - Present
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 352
1204 - 1269
HPI: 52.86
Rank: 353
Among people born in 1672, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer ranks 5. Before 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 10. Before 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.
1672 - 1725
HPI: 83.99
Rank: 1
1672 - 1719
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 2
1672 - 1742
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 3
1672 - 1750
HPI: 53.74
Rank: 4
1672 - 1733
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 5
1672 - 1703
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 6
1672 - 1724
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 7
1672 - 1749
HPI: 50.63
Rank: 8
1672 - 1723
HPI: 49.84
Rank: 9
1672 - 1729
HPI: 47.58
Rank: 10
1691 - 1733
HPI: 60.02
Rank: 4
1661 - 1733
HPI: 59.69
Rank: 5
1667 - 1733
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 6
1659 - 1733
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 7
1676 - 1733
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 8
1650 - 1733
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 9
1672 - 1733
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 10
1658 - 1733
HPI: 52.47
Rank: 11
1700 - 1733
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 12
1675 - 1733
HPI: 51.90
Rank: 13
1678 - 1733
HPI: 51.13
Rank: 14
1681 - 1733
HPI: 48.47
Rank: 15
Among people born in Switzerland, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer ranks 255 out of 876. Before 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).
1767 - 1849
HPI: 53.27
Rank: 249
1950 - Present
HPI: 53.20
Rank: 250
1670 - 1734
HPI: 53.18
Rank: 251
1939 - 2020
HPI: 53.17
Rank: 252
1891 - 1968
HPI: 53.15
Rank: 253
1861 - 1936
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 254
1672 - 1733
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 255
1841 - 1912
HPI: 52.98
Rank: 256
1942 - Present
HPI: 52.92
Rank: 257
1797 - 1854
HPI: 52.85
Rank: 258
1957 - Present
HPI: 52.71
Rank: 259
1922 - 2017
HPI: 52.66
Rank: 260
1887 - 1918
HPI: 52.64
Rank: 261
Among physicians born in Switzerland, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer ranks 10. Before 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).
1841 - 1917
HPI: 66.80
Rank: 4
1844 - 1895
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 5
1881 - 1973
HPI: 64.40
Rank: 6
1863 - 1943
HPI: 63.89
Rank: 7
1708 - 1777
HPI: 61.76
Rank: 8
1944 - Present
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 9
1672 - 1733
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 10
1867 - 1939
HPI: 51.34
Rank: 11
1866 - 1950
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 12
1777 - 1861
HPI: 49.56
Rank: 13
1524 - 1583
HPI: 46.34
Rank: 14
1963 - Present
HPI: 36.31
Rank: 15