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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 71,937 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Julius von Haast is the 44th most popular geologist (down from 42nd in 2019), the 3,850th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,496th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Julius von Haast ranks 44 out of 59Before him are Barnum Brown, William Nicol, Joachim Barrande, Pentti Eskola, Niles Eldredge, and Norman L. Bowen. After him are Henryk Arctowski, Ferdinand Zirkel, Alexander Karpinsky, Luigi Palmieri, Oskar Lenz, and Carl Friedrich Schmidt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Julius von Haast ranks 59Before him are Mathew Brady, Jakob Dubs, Dmitry Grigorovich, Gustav Spörer, Luis Sáenz Peña, and Janko Kráľ. After him are Adolph Strecker, Victor Massé, Bernhard Hammer, Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, and Nikolay Ilminsky. Among people deceased in 1887, Julius von Haast ranks 40Before him are Lorenzo Batlle y Grau, Mohamed Sherif Pasha, Friedrich Theodor Vischer, Alvan Clark, Peter Jan Beckx, and Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann. After him are Mikhail Katkov, Fran Levstik, E. Marlitt, Peder Balke, August Spies, and John Taylor.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Julius von Haast ranks 3,850 out of 6,142Before him are Paul Götz (1883), Wolf Hoffmann (1959), Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling (1908), Ludwig Berger (1892), Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa (1818), and Paul Verhoeven (1901). After him are Conrad Albrecht (1880), Christine Lambrecht (1965), Princess Ida of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1796), Herbert Erhardt (1930), Eugen Bolz (1881), and Karl Hein (1908).

Among GEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among geologists born in Germany, Julius von Haast ranks 6Before him are Alfred Wegener (1880), Friedrich Mohs (1773), Beno Gutenberg (1889), Christian Leopold von Buch (1774), and Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann (1797). After him are Ferdinand Zirkel (1838) and Oskar Lenz (1848).