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BIOLOGIST

Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger

1775 - 1813

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Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (19 November 1775 – 10 May 1813) was a German entomologist and zoologist. Illiger was the son of a merchant in Braunschweig. He studied under the entomologist Johann Hellwig, and later worked on the zoological collections of Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger has received more than 94,268 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger is the 339th most popular biologist (down from 224th in 2019), the 2,704th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,864th in 2019) and the 61st most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger ranks 339 out of 841. Before him are Takenoshin Nakai, Emil Christian Hansen, Karl Koch, John Stevens Henslow, John Needham, and John Sulston. After him are Leizu, Charles Chamberland, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, and Eugen Fischer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1775, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger ranks 27. Before him are Camillo Borghese, 6th Prince of Sulmona, Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Teréz Brunszvik, Antoni Radziwiłł, Carlo Rossi, and Louisa Adams. After him are Baji Rao II, Daniel O'Connell, Charles Lamb, Nicolas Isouard, George Prideaux Robert Harris, and José de Palafox y Melci, 1st Duke of Zaragoza. Among people deceased in 1813, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger ranks 24. Before him are Géraud Duroc, George Shaw, Anton Graff, Maria Caterina Brignole, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg, and Anton Bernolák. After him are Johann Christian Reil, Jacques Delille, George I, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Theodor Körner, Edmund Randolph, and Benjamin Rush.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger ranks 2,704 out of 6,142. Before him are Hermann, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1832), John George I, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (1634), Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743), Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1614), Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (1891), and Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1646). After him are Joachim Streich (1951), Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808), John Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1627), Gisèle Freund (1908), Adelaide, Abbess of Vilich (960), and Carl, Duke of Württemberg (1936).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger ranks 61. Before him are Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (1811), Ernst Schäfer (1910), Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767), Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725), Carl Ludwig Blume (1796), and Karl Koch (1809). After him are Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823), Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (1665), Eugen Fischer (1874), Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743), Carl Sigismund Kunth (1788), and Princess Therese of Bavaria (1850).

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