1799 - 1854
Carl Adolph von Basedow (28 March 1799 – 11 April 1854) was a German physician most famous for reporting the symptoms of what could later be dubbed Graves-Basedow disease, now technically known as exophthalmic goiter. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Adolph von Basedow has received more than 34,217 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Karl Adolph von Basedow is the 252nd most popular physician (down from 207th in 2019), the 1,768th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,408th in 2019) and the 38th most popular German Physician.
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Among physicians, Karl Adolph von Basedow ranks 252 out of 502. Before him are Thomas Addison, August Oetker, Adolf Eugen Fick, Constantine the African, Vladimir Dal, and Peter Agre. After him are Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, Aëtius of Amida, Robert Darwin, John Harvey Kellogg, Caspar Friedrich Wolff, and Thomas Sydenham.
1793 - 1860
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 246
1862 - 1918
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 247
1829 - 1901
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 248
1020 - 1087
HPI: 56.68
Rank: 249
1801 - 1872
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 250
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 251
1799 - 1854
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 252
1162 - 1231
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 253
502 - 575
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 254
1766 - 1848
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 255
1852 - 1943
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 256
1735 - 1794
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 257
1624 - 1689
HPI: 56.33
Rank: 258
Among people born in 1799, Karl Adolph von Basedow ranks 15. Before him are William Lassell, Fromental Halévy, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Anna Atkins, Christian Friedrich Schönbein, and Rodolphe Töpffer. After him are Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, John Lindley, Countess of Ségur, Princess Maria Anna of Saxony, Vincenz Priessnitz, and Almeida Garrett. Among people deceased in 1854, Karl Adolph von Basedow ranks 11. Before him are Charles III, Duke of Parma, Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais, Abbas I of Egypt, Johann Peter Eckermann, Józef Elsner, and Princess Louise Amelie of Baden. After him are Zénaïde Bonaparte, John Martin, Marcellin Marbot, Almeida Garrett, Pierre Alphonse Laurent, and Kamehameha III.
1799 - 1880
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 9
1799 - 1862
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 10
1799 - 1875
HPI: 59.96
Rank: 11
1799 - 1871
HPI: 59.13
Rank: 12
1799 - 1868
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 13
1799 - 1846
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 14
1799 - 1854
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 15
1799 - 1869
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 16
1799 - 1865
HPI: 55.72
Rank: 17
1799 - 1874
HPI: 55.33
Rank: 18
1799 - 1832
HPI: 55.14
Rank: 19
1799 - 1851
HPI: 55.01
Rank: 20
1799 - 1854
HPI: 54.79
Rank: 21
1823 - 1854
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 5
1782 - 1854
HPI: 60.96
Rank: 6
1816 - 1854
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 7
1792 - 1854
HPI: 59.15
Rank: 8
1769 - 1854
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 9
1811 - 1854
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 10
1799 - 1854
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 11
1801 - 1854
HPI: 55.86
Rank: 12
1789 - 1854
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 13
1782 - 1854
HPI: 54.85
Rank: 14
1799 - 1854
HPI: 54.79
Rank: 15
1813 - 1854
HPI: 54.75
Rank: 16
1814 - 1854
HPI: 54.39
Rank: 17
Among people born in Germany, Karl Adolph von Basedow ranks 1,768 out of 6,142. Before him are Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach (1715), Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony (1796), Joachim von Sandrart (1606), Adolf Bastian (1826), Katarina Witt (1965), and Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg (1785). After him are Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1617), Erich Brandenberger (1892), Heinrich Eberbach (1895), Ernst von Weizsäcker (1882), Ernst Busch (1900), and Gertrude of Hohenberg (1225).
1715 - 1739
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 1,762
1796 - 1865
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 1,763
1606 - 1688
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 1,764
1826 - 1905
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 1,765
1965 - Present
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 1,766
1785 - 1846
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 1,767
1799 - 1854
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 1,768
1617 - 1677
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 1,769
1892 - 1955
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 1,770
1895 - 1992
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 1,771
1882 - 1951
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 1,772
1900 - 1980
HPI: 56.59
Rank: 1,773
1225 - 1281
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 1,774
Among physicians born in Germany, Karl Adolph von Basedow ranks 38. Before him are Horst Schumann (1906), Hans Berger (1873), Carl Ludwig (1816), Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796), August Oetker (1862), and Adolf Eugen Fick (1829). After him are Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1735), Ernst Gräfenberg (1881), Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875), Friedrich Kasimir Medikus (1736), Friedrich Hoffmann (1660), and Eduard Wirths (1909).
1906 - 1983
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 32
1873 - 1941
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 33
1816 - 1895
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 34
1796 - 1866
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 35
1862 - 1918
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 36
1829 - 1901
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 37
1799 - 1854
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 38
1735 - 1794
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 39
1881 - 1957
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 40
1875 - 1951
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 41
1736 - 1808
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 42
1660 - 1742
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 43
1909 - 1945
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 44