BIOLOGIST

Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti

1735 - 1805

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Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti (4 December 1735, Vienna – 17 February 1805, Vienna) was an Austrian naturalist and zoologist of Italian origin. Laurenti is considered the auctor of the class Reptilia (reptiles) through his authorship of Specimen Medicum, Exhibens Synopsin Reptilium Emendatam cum Experimentis circa Venena (1768) on the poisonous function of reptiles and amphibians. This was an important book in herpetology, defining thirty genera of reptiles; Carl Linnaeus's 10th edition of Systema Naturae in 1758 defined only ten genera. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti has received more than 99,685 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti is the 373rd most popular biologist (up from 464th in 2019), the 574th most popular biography from Austria (up from 656th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Austrian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti ranks 373 out of 1,097. Before him are John Hughlings Jackson, Georg Joseph Kamel, Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben, Eugen Fischer, Daniel Solander, and Johann Jakob von Tschudi. After him are René Lesson, Brian Kobilka, John Stevens Henslow, Franz Xaver von Wulfen, Theodor Boveri, and Nicolaas Laurens Burman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1735, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti ranks 19. Before him are Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, Johann Karl August Musäus, Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, Ignacy Krasicki, and Dmitry Levitzky. After him are József Alvinczi, Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Joseph Ducreux, Ivan Kulibin, Paul Kray, and Ulrika Pasch. Among people deceased in 1805, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti ranks 17. Before him are Mihrişah Sultan, Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron, Conrad Moench, Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Pehr Osbeck, and Nicolas-Jacques Conté. After him are Franz Xaver von Wulfen, William Paley, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Ji Yun, and Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti ranks 574 out of 1,424. Before him are Heimito von Doderer (1896), Leo Spitzer (1887), Anton Schall (1907), Károly Huszár (1882), Günter Brus (1938), and Hanns Hörbiger (1867). After him are Dezső Kosztolányi (1885), Sigismund von Neukomm (1778), Bénédict Morel (1809), Paula von Preradović (1887), Viktor Klima (1947), and Theodore Romzha (1911).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Austria

Among biologists born in Austria, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti ranks 9. Before him are Karl von Frisch (1886), Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901), Othenio Abel (1875), Leopold Fitzinger (1802), Clemens von Pirquet (1874), and Erich von Tschermak (1871). After him are Joy Adamson (1910), Franz Unger (1800), Josef August Schultes (1773), Johann Natterer (1787), Ignaz Schiffermüller (1727), and Richard Wettstein (1863).

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