GEOLOGIST

Julius von Haast

1822 - 1887

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Sir Johann Franz Julius von Haast (1 May 1822 – 16 August 1887) was a German-born New Zealand explorer, geologist, and founder of the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julius von Haast has received more than 79,432 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Julius von Haast is the 27th most popular geologist (up from 43rd in 2019), the 2,954th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,840th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Julius von Haast ranks 27 out of 90. Before him are Gideon Mantell, Jean-André Deluc, William Buckland, Adam Sedgwick, John Tuzo Wilson, and Vladimir Obruchev. After him are Norman L. Bowen, Barnum Brown, Albert Heim, Léon Teisserenc de Bort, Anna Missuna, and Adolphe d'Archiac.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Julius von Haast ranks 44. Before him are Nikolay Danilevsky, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Fritz Müller, Princess Augusta Reuss of Köstritz, Princess Augusta of Cambridge, and Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe. After him are Jakob Dubs, Jacob Moleschott, Albrecht Ritschl, Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse, Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, and Apollonie Sabatier. Among people deceased in 1887, Julius von Haast ranks 25. Before him are Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, Luigi Jacobini, Agostino Depretis, Hippolyte Bayard, Hans von Marées, and William A. Wheeler. After him are Coenraad Johannes van Houten, Joseph Whitworth, J. C. Jacobsen, Prince Franz de Paula of Liechtenstein, Louis Gallait, and Ditlev Gothard Monrad.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Julius von Haast ranks 2,954 out of 7,253. Before him are Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin (1684), Joselu (1990), Johannes Popitz (1884), Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823), Otto Schniewind (1887), and Heinrich von Bellegarde (1756). After him are Johanna Quandt (1926), Malwida von Meysenbug (1816), Charles I, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1425), Magdalena of Saxony (1507), Henry E. Steinway (1797), and Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1794).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among geologists born in Germany, Julius von Haast ranks 5. Before him are Alfred Wegener (1880), Friedrich Mohs (1773), Beno Gutenberg (1889), and Christian Leopold von Buch (1774). After him are Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann (1797), Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald (1902), Ferdinand von Hochstetter (1829), Ferdinand Zirkel (1838), Harry Rosenbusch (1836), Oskar Lenz (1848), and Rudolf Geiger (1894).

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