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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 95,065 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti is the 465th most popular biologist (down from 271st in 2019), the 660th most popular biography from Austria (down from 468th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Austrian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti ranks 465 out of 841. Before him are Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, Otto von Münchhausen, Gregory Winter, Jacob Georg Agardh, W. D. Hamilton, and Kaspar Maria von Sternberg. After him are Jean Victoir Audouin, Jacob Sturm, Richard Lydekker, Alexander Kovalevsky, Albrecht Wilhelm Roth, and Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1735, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti ranks 21. Before him are Dmitry Levitzky, Ibrahim Bey, Ignacy Krasicki, József Alvinczi, Paul Kray, and Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton. After him are Ivan Kulibin, Joseph Ducreux, Ulrika Pasch, Tobias Furneaux, Jesse Ramsden, and John Carroll. Among people deceased in 1805, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti ranks 21. Before him are Nicolas-Jacques Conté, Conrad Moench, Pehr Osbeck, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, and Franz Xaver von Wulfen. After him are Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, Thomas Wedgwood, John Robison, Mihály Csokonai, and Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti ranks 660 out of 1,237. Before him are Herma Szabo (1902), Thomas Muster (1967), Johann von Herbeck (1831), Ignaz Holzbauer (1711), Walter Berry (1929), and Karl von Blaas (1815). After him are Ernst Grünfeld (1893), Josef Kriehuber (1800), Ceija Stojka (1933), Ernst Jandl (1925), Valie Export (1940), and Heinrich Lammasch (1853).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Austria

Among biologists born in Austria, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti ranks 10. Before him are Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901), Joy Adamson (1910), Erich von Tschermak (1871), Othenio Abel (1875), Clemens von Pirquet (1874), and Leopold Fitzinger (1802). After him are Franz Unger (1800), Ignaz Schiffermüller (1727), Franz Steindachner (1834), Josef August Schultes (1773), Johann Natterer (1787), and Joseph Rock (1884).

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