BIOLOGIST

Johann Matthäus Bechstein

1757 - 1822

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Johann Matthäus Bechstein (11 July 1757 – 23 February 1822) was a German naturalist, forester, ornithologist, entomologist, and herpetologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Matthäus Bechstein has received more than 34,836 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Matthäus Bechstein is the 198th most popular biologist (down from 188th in 2019), the 1,567th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,603rd in 2019) and the 27th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Matthäus Bechstein ranks 198 out of 1,097. Before him are Henry Walter Bates, George Shaw, Asa Gray, Alexander Agassiz, Temple Grandin, and Carl Ludwig Willdenow. After him are John James Audubon, Charles Bell, Hugo Gunckel Lüer, Oldfield Thomas, Adam Afzelius, and Waldemar Haffkine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1757, Johann Matthäus Bechstein ranks 16. Before him are Rigas Feraios, George Vancouver, Erik Acharius, Ignaz Pleyel, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, and Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis. After him are Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, Ercole Consalvi, Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney, Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Vladimir Borovikovsky. Among people deceased in 1822, Johann Matthäus Bechstein ranks 15. Before him are Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Giovanni Battista Venturi, Paolo Ruffini, René Just Haüy, Valentin Haüy, and Karl August von Hardenberg. After him are Jean-Robert Argand, Sophie de Condorcet, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Slimane of Morocco, Bathilde d'Orléans, and Platon Zubov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Matthäus Bechstein ranks 1,567 out of 7,253. Before him are Julius Schaub (1898), Salomon Mayer von Rothschild (1774), Gottfried August Bürger (1747), Karin Dor (1938), Johannes Steinhoff (1913), and John Polanyi (1929). After him are Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670), Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia (1200), Franz Hössler (1906), Hans Knappertsbusch (1888), Bruno Streckenbach (1902), and Hans Speidel (1897).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Johann Matthäus Bechstein ranks 27. Before him are Julius Richard Petri (1852), Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739), Georges J. F. Köhler (1946), Theodor Escherich (1857), Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709), and Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765). After him are Friedrich Parrot (1791), Hans Driesch (1867), Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771), Carl Bernhard von Trinius (1778), Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775), and Carl Gustav Carus (1789).

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