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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 36,044 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Alfred von Zittel is the 796th most popular biologist (down from 694th in 2019), the 4,405th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,786th in 2019) and the 157th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Karl Alfred von Zittel ranks 796 out of 841Before him are Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers, Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet, André Marie Constant Duméril, Jan Sztolcman, Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov, and John Lawrence LeConte. After him are Aimée Antoinette Camus, Thomas Nuttall, Robert Weinberg, John Jacob Abel, Reginald Innes Pocock, and Astrid Cleve.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Karl Alfred von Zittel ranks 75Before him are Carl Humann, Ludwig Mond, Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Tage Reedtz-Thott, William T. Anderson, and John Aitken. After him are James Crafts, August W. Eichler, Nicolaas Pierson, Ignacio Andrade, Ivan Kuratov, and Julius von Hann. Among people deceased in 1904, Karl Alfred von Zittel ranks 81Before him are Andrei Ryabushkin, Manuel Candamo, Karl Moritz Schumann, Rodolfo Amando Philippi, Isaac Roberts, and Sumner Paine. After him are Fyodor Bredikhin, Charles Foster, Richard Knill Freeman, John Brown Gordon, Frances Power Cobbe, and George Salmon.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Alfred von Zittel ranks 4,405 out of 6,142Before him are Nick Menza (1964), Eduard David (1863), Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann (1785), Barbara Hendricks (1952), Pief Panofsky (1919), and Hansi Kürsch (1966). After him are Dietmar Bartsch (1958), Christian Streich (1965), Dietmar Hamann (1973), Katharine Cornell (1893), Peter Baltes (1958), and Max Hainle (1882).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Karl Alfred von Zittel ranks 157Before him are Rodolfo Amando Philippi (1808), Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (1798), Amalie Dietrich (1821), Wilhelm Weinberg (1862), Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus (1835), and Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers (1816). After him are August W. Eichler (1839), Max Fürbringer (1846), Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727), Erwin Stresemann (1889), Blasius Merrem (1761), and George Engelmann (1809).