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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 31,966 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Johann Matthäus Bechstein is the 189th most popular biologist (up from 210th in 2019), the 1,603rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,720th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Matthäus Bechstein ranks 189 out of 841Before him are George Smith, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Charles Bell, Friedrich Parrot, and Henry Walter Bates. After him are Humberto Maturana, Salim Ali, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Erik Pontoppidan, and Michel Adanson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1757, Johann Matthäus Bechstein ranks 14Before him are Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Ignaz Pleyel, Rigas Feraios, Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, George Vancouver, and Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis. After him are Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, Erik Acharius, Michel-Gabriel Paccard, Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, and Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein. Among people deceased in 1822, Johann Matthäus Bechstein ranks 14Before him are Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, Giovanni Battista Venturi, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Valentin Haüy, Paolo Ruffini, and René Just Haüy. After him are Karl August von Hardenberg, Jean-Robert Argand, Sophie de Condorcet, Platon Zubov, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, and Cheung Po Tsai.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Matthäus Bechstein ranks 1,603 out of 6,142Before him are Gottfried Böhm (1920), Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736), Wolfgang Wagner (1919), Johann Arndt (1555), Werner Jaeger (1888), and Sebastian Vettel (1987). After him are John Heartfield (1891), Fidelis of Sigmaringen (1577), Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783), Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1772), Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia (1200), and Florian Schneider (1947).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Johann Matthäus Bechstein ranks 23Before him are Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942), Erwin Neher (1944), Bert Sakmann (1942), Hans Driesch (1867), Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748), and Friedrich Parrot (1791). After him are Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795), Carl Gustav Carus (1789), Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806), Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1916), Georges J. F. Köhler (1946), and Willi Hennig (1913).