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Karl Adolph von Basedow

1799 - 1854

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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 37,591 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Adolph von Basedow is the 221st most popular physician (up from 252nd in 2019), the 1,540th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,767th in 2019) and the 34th most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Karl Adolph von Basedow ranks 221 out of 726. Before him are Soranus of Ephesus, Thomas Bartholin, Franciscus Sylvius, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Hans Rosling, and Carl von Rokitansky. After him are Philipp Franz von Siebold, Paul of Aegina, Barry Marshall, Bernard Kouchner, Patch Adams, and Regnier de Graaf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Karl Adolph von Basedow ranks 15. Before him are Karl Bryullov, Charles II, Duke of Parma, Fromental Halévy, Anna Atkins, Christian Friedrich Schönbein, and Rodolphe Töpffer. After him are Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, John Lindley, Vincenz Priessnitz, Countess of Ségur, René Caillié, and Almeida Garrett. Among people deceased in 1854, Karl Adolph von Basedow ranks 9. Before him are Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Abbas I of Egypt, Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais, Johann Peter Eckermann, and Charles III, Duke of Parma. After him are Józef Elsner, Princess Louise Amelie of Baden, Zénaïde Bonaparte, Fructuoso Rivera, John Martin, and Kamehameha III.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Adolph von Basedow ranks 1,540 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia (1887), Carl Heinrich Graun (1704), Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (1795), John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (1455), Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813), and Viktor Brack (1904). After him are Karl August Wittfogel (1896), Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1756), Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709), Princess Margaretha of Saxony (1840), Prince Henry of Prussia (1726), and Ernest Mandel (1923).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Karl Adolph von Basedow ranks 34. Before him are Waldemar Hoven (1903), Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818), Ernst-Günther Schenck (1904), August Oetker (1862), Adolf Eugen Fick (1829), and Franciscus Sylvius (1614). After him are Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796), Hans Berger (1873), Ernst-Robert Grawitz (1899), Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1735), Ernst Gräfenberg (1881), and Horst Schumann (1906).

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