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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 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

Among physicians, Karl Adolph von Basedow ranks 252 out of 502Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Karl Adolph von Basedow ranks 15Before 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 11Before 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.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Adolph von Basedow ranks 1,768 out of 6,142Before 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).

Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Karl Adolph von Basedow ranks 38Before 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).