1792 - 1876
Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer Edler von Huthorn (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 203,238 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Ernst von Baer is the 46th most popular biologist (down from 34th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Estonia (down from 5th in 2019) 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, Karl Ernst von Baer ranks 46 out of 841. Before him are Ada Yonath, Richard Owen, Nikolaas Tinbergen, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, August Weismann, and Matthias Jakob Schleiden. After him are Hans Spemann, Peter Simon Pallas, Nikolai Vavilov, Hugo de Vries, Vladimir Vernadsky, and Adelbert von Chamisso.
1939 - Present
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 40
1804 - 1892
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 41
1907 - 1988
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 42
1683 - 1757
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 43
1834 - 1914
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 44
1804 - 1881
HPI: 65.79
Rank: 45
1792 - 1876
HPI: 65.69
Rank: 46
1869 - 1941
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 47
1741 - 1811
HPI: 65.47
Rank: 48
1887 - 1943
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 49
1848 - 1935
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 50
1863 - 1945
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 51
1781 - 1838
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 52
Among people born in 1792, Karl Ernst von Baer ranks 9. Before him are Percy Bysshe Shelley, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, Nikolai Lobachevsky, William II of the Netherlands, John Herschel, and Caroline Augusta of Bavaria. After him are Alexander Ypsilantis, Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, James Mayer de Rothschild, Johan August Arfwedson, and Maria Beatrice of Savoy. Among people deceased in 1876, Karl Ernst von Baer ranks 6. Before him are Mikhail Bakunin, George Sand, Abdülaziz, Josephine of Leuchtenberg, and George Armstrong Custer. After him are Catherine Labouré, Antonio López de Santa Anna, Truganini, Marie d'Agoult, Ildefons Cerdà, and Antoine Jérôme Balard.
1792 - 1822
HPI: 70.40
Rank: 3
1792 - 1843
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 4
1792 - 1856
HPI: 68.90
Rank: 5
1792 - 1849
HPI: 68.80
Rank: 6
1792 - 1871
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 7
1792 - 1873
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 8
1792 - 1876
HPI: 65.69
Rank: 9
1792 - 1828
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 10
1792 - 1854
HPI: 62.44
Rank: 11
1792 - 1849
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 12
1792 - 1868
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 13
1792 - 1841
HPI: 60.05
Rank: 14
1792 - 1840
HPI: 60.02
Rank: 15
1814 - 1876
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 1
1804 - 1876
HPI: 76.79
Rank: 2
1830 - 1876
HPI: 72.81
Rank: 3
1807 - 1876
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 4
1839 - 1876
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 5
1792 - 1876
HPI: 65.69
Rank: 6
1806 - 1876
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 7
1794 - 1876
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 8
1812 - 1876
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 9
1805 - 1876
HPI: 61.69
Rank: 10
1815 - 1876
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 11
1802 - 1876
HPI: 60.77
Rank: 12
Among people born in Estonia, Karl Ernst von Baer ranks 6 out of 310. 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 Konstantin Päts (1874), Wolfgang Köhler (1887), Louis Kahn (1901), Lennart Meri (1929), Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow (1929), and Paul Keres (1916).
1684 - 1727
HPI: 78.49
Rank: 1
1893 - 1946
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 2
1804 - 1865
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 3
1935 - Present
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 4
1778 - 1852
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 5
1792 - 1876
HPI: 65.69
Rank: 6
1874 - 1956
HPI: 64.90
Rank: 7
1887 - 1967
HPI: 63.94
Rank: 8
1901 - 1974
HPI: 63.39
Rank: 9
1929 - 2006
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 10
1929 - 2008
HPI: 62.02
Rank: 11
1916 - 1975
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 12
Among biologists born in Estonia, Karl Ernst von Baer ranks 1. After him are Jakob von Uexküll (1864) and Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz (1793).
1792 - 1876
HPI: 65.69
Rank: 1
1864 - 1944
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 2
1793 - 1831
HPI: 52.68
Rank: 3