BIOLOGIST

Karl Alfred von Zittel

1839 - 1904

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Karl Alfred Ritter von Zittel (25 September 1839 – 5 January 1904) was a German palaeontologist best known for his Handbuch der Palaeontologie (1876–1880). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Alfred von Zittel has received more than 38,845 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Karl Alfred von Zittel is the 560th most popular biologist (up from 795th in 2019), the 3,891st most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,391st in 2019) and the 124th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Karl Alfred von Zittel ranks 560 out of 1,097. Before him are Johann Gerhard König, Oscar Hertwig, Edward Forbes, Andrew Smith, Johannes Burman, and Mary Agnes Chase. After him are Edward Turner Bennett, Barry Commoner, Abu al-Abbas al-Nabati, Sabiha Kasimati, Eduard August von Regel, and Hwang Woo-suk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Karl Alfred von Zittel ranks 63. Before him are Harry Seeley, Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, Georges Rayet, Nils Christoffer Dunér, Luigi Capuana, and Friedrich Gernsheim. After him are Ludwig Anzengruber, Julius Petersen, Calixto García, James Crafts, Caterina Volpicelli, and Jakob Hurt. Among people deceased in 1904, Karl Alfred von Zittel ranks 66. Before him are Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin, Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi, Martin Johnson Heade, Edwin Arnold, Leslie Stephen, and Ferdinand Mannlicher. After him are Larin Paraske, Nikolay Mikhaylovsky, Miltiadis Gouskos, Emmanuel Drake del Castillo, Princess Pauline of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Wilhelm His Sr..

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Alfred von Zittel ranks 3,891 out of 7,253. Before him are Eberhard Vogel (1943), Werner Klemperer (1920), Robert Spaemann (1927), Christian Gotthilf Salzmann (1744), Maximilian von Montgelas (1759), and Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger (1765). After him are Wilhelm Jordan (1842), Walter Andreas Schwarz (1913), Hermann Usener (1834), Alice Weidel (1979), Friedrich von Bodenstedt (1819), and Christian Rohlfs (1849).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Karl Alfred von Zittel ranks 124. Before him are Albrecht Thaer (1752), Johann Friedrich Meckel (1781), Otto von Münchhausen (1716), Otto Kuntze (1843), Salomon Müller (1804), and Oscar Hertwig (1849). After him are Eduard August von Regel (1815), Blasius Merrem (1761), Johann Heinrich Blasius (1809), Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer (1782), Jacob Sturm (1771), and Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727).

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