1757 - 1822
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, Johann Matthäus Bechstein ranks 189 out of 841. Before 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.
1941 - Present
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 183
1748 - 1804
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 184
1741 - 1783
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 185
1774 - 1842
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 186
1791 - 1841
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 187
1825 - 1892
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 188
1757 - 1822
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 189
1928 - 2021
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 190
1896 - 1987
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 191
1795 - 1876
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 192
1922 - 2018
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 193
1698 - 1764
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 194
1727 - 1806
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 195
Among people born in 1757, Johann Matthäus Bechstein ranks 14. Before 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 14. Before 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.
1757 - 1806
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 8
1757 - 1831
HPI: 61.12
Rank: 9
1757 - 1798
HPI: 60.04
Rank: 10
1757 - 1828
HPI: 59.94
Rank: 11
1757 - 1798
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 12
1757 - 1808
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 13
1757 - 1822
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 14
1757 - 1823
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 15
1757 - 1814
HPI: 56.59
Rank: 16
1757 - 1819
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 17
1757 - 1827
HPI: 55.84
Rank: 18
1757 - 1816
HPI: 55.73
Rank: 19
1757 - 1831
HPI: 55.66
Rank: 20
1766 - 1822
HPI: 63.47
Rank: 8
1746 - 1822
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 9
1749 - 1822
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 10
1745 - 1822
HPI: 59.29
Rank: 11
1765 - 1822
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 12
1743 - 1822
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 13
1757 - 1822
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 14
1750 - 1822
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 15
1768 - 1822
HPI: 56.76
Rank: 16
1764 - 1822
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 17
1767 - 1822
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 18
1769 - 1822
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 19
1783 - 1822
HPI: 54.65
Rank: 20
Among people born in Germany, Johann Matthäus Bechstein ranks 1,603 out of 6,142. Before 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).
1920 - 2021
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 1,597
1736 - 1783
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 1,598
1919 - 2010
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 1,599
1555 - 1621
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 1,600
1888 - 1961
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 1,601
1987 - Present
HPI: 57.47
Rank: 1,602
1757 - 1822
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 1,603
1891 - 1968
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 1,604
1577 - 1622
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 1,605
1783 - 1851
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 1,606
1772 - 1806
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 1,607
1200 - 1227
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 1,608
1947 - 2020
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 1,609
Among biologists born in Germany, Johann Matthäus Bechstein ranks 23. Before 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).
1942 - Present
HPI: 59.10
Rank: 17
1944 - Present
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 18
1942 - Present
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 19
1867 - 1941
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 20
1748 - 1804
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 21
1791 - 1841
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 22
1757 - 1822
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 23
1795 - 1876
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 24
1789 - 1869
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 25
1806 - 1886
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 26
1916 - 2010
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 27
1946 - 1995
HPI: 56.45
Rank: 28
1913 - 1976
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 29