BIOLOGIST

Karl Ernst von Baer

1792 - 1876

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Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer Edler von Huthorn (Russian: Карл Макси́мович Бэр; 28 February [O.S. 17 February] 1792 – 28 November [O.S. 16 November] 1876) was a Baltic German scientist and explorer. Baer was a naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, and is considered a, or the, founding father of embryology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Ernst von Baer has received more than 248,447 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Karl Ernst von Baer is the 42nd most popular biologist (up from 47th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Estonia and the most popular Estonian Biologist.

Karl Ernst von Baer is most famous for his discovery of the mammalian ovum in 1827.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Karl Ernst von Baer ranks 42 out of 1,097. Before him are Harald zur Hausen, Dian Fossey, Karl von Frisch, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Lazzaro Spallanzani, and Vladimir Vernadsky. After him are Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Christian de Duve, Hans Spemann, Peter Simon Pallas, Richard Owen, and Jan Evangelista Purkyně.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1792, Karl Ernst von Baer ranks 8. Before him are Pope Pius IX, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, William II of the Netherlands, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Nikolai Lobachevsky, and John Herschel. After him are Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, Alexander Ypsilantis, Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, William, Duke of Nassau, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, and James Mayer de Rothschild. Among people deceased in 1876, Karl Ernst von Baer ranks 6. Before him are Mikhail Bakunin, George Sand, Abdülaziz, Josephine of Leuchtenberg, and Truganini. After him are George Armstrong Custer, Antonio López de Santa Anna, Catherine Labouré, Marie d'Agoult, Ildefons Cerdà, and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Karl Ernst von Baer ranks 6 out of 351. Before him are Catherine I of Russia (1684), Alfred Rosenberg (1893), Emil Lenz (1804), Arvo Pärt (1935), and Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (1778). After him are Wolfgang Köhler (1887), Konstantin Päts (1874), Lennart Meri (1929), Paul Keres (1916), Louis Kahn (1901), and Arnold Rüütel (1928).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Estonia

Among biologists born in Estonia, Karl Ernst von Baer ranks 1. After him are Jakob von Uexküll (1864), and Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz (1793).

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