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. He founded the entomological periodical Magazin für Insektenkunde. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger has received more than 100,088 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger is the 232nd most popular biologist (up from 338th in 2019), the 1,866th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,701st in 2019) and the 32nd most popular German Biologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger ranks 232 out of 1,097. Before him are George Smith, Francisco Varela, Humberto Maturana, Carl Bernhard von Trinius, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice. After him are Ludwik Fleck, Carl Gustav Carus, Howard Martin Temin, Vladimir Demikhov, Nehemiah Grew, and Lorenz Oken.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1775, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger ranks 22. Before him are Matthew Lewis, Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, Farkas Bolyai, Teréz Brunszvik, Camillo Borghese, 6th Prince of Sulmona, and Bernhard Crusell. After him are Manuel García, Conrad Malte-Brun, Antoni Radziwiłł, Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Louisa Adams, and Juan Martín Díez. Among people deceased in 1813, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger ranks 19. Before him are George Shaw, Johann Baptist Wanhal, Jean-Andoche Junot, Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, Jean-Baptiste Bessières, and Giambattista Bodoni. After him are Géraud Duroc, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg, Princess Augusta of Great Britain, Johann Christian Reil, Anton Bernolák, and Anton Graff.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger ranks 1,866 out of 7,253. Before him are Edmund Conen (1914), Albert Lortzing (1801), Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (1723), Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick (1714), Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken (1746), and Charlotte Salomon (1917). After him are Heinz Jost (1904), Carl Gustav Carus (1789), Friedrich Rückert (1788), Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1826), Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein (1757), and Friedrich Albert Lange (1828).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger ranks 32. Before him are Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765), Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757), Friedrich Parrot (1791), Hans Driesch (1867), Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771), and Carl Bernhard von Trinius (1778). After him are Carl Gustav Carus (1789), Lorenz Oken (1779), Willi Hennig (1913), Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (1797), Carl Correns (1864), and Hermann Schlegel (1804).

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