BIOLOGIST

Karl Gegenbaur

1826 - 1903

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Carl Gegenbaur (21 August 1826 – 14 June 1903) was a German anatomist and professor who demonstrated that the field of comparative anatomy offers important evidence supporting of the theory of evolution. As a professor of anatomy at the University of Jena (1855–1873) and at the University of Heidelberg (1873–1903), Carl Gegenbaur was a strong supporter of Charles Darwin's theory of organic evolution, having taught and worked, beginning in 1858, with Ernst Haeckel, eight years his junior. Gegenbaur's book Grundzüge der vergleichenden Anatomie (1859; English translation Elements of Comparative Anatomy by Francis Jeffrey Bell, 1878) became the standard textbook, at the time, of evolutionary morphology, emphasizing that structural similarities among various animals provide clues to their evolutionary history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Gegenbaur has received more than 45,148 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Karl Gegenbaur is the 478th most popular biologist (down from 431st in 2019), the 3,482nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,183rd in 2019) and the 101st most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Karl Gegenbaur ranks 478 out of 1,097. Before her are Anders Dahl, Alexander Kovalevsky, Jacques Loeb, Dmitry Belyayev, Henri Ernest Baillon, and Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn. After her are Heinrich Anton de Bary, Matthias de l'Obel, Johan Peter Falk, Benedykt Dybowski, Archibald Reiss, and Heinz Christian Pander.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, Karl Gegenbaur ranks 35. Before her are Giovanni Battista Donati, Hormuzd Rassam, Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Princess Alexandra of Bavaria, Charles Barbier de Meynard, and Franz Grashof. After her are Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Romuald Traugutt, Richard Christopher Carrington, Mohamed Sherif Pasha, Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, and Julia Grant. Among people deceased in 1903, Karl Gegenbaur ranks 48. Before her are Emily Warren Roebling, William Ernest Henley, Kusumoto Ine, Adrien Proust, Ozaki Kōyō, and Tang Jingsong. After her are Auguste Kerckhoffs, George Gissing, Gustav Radde, Girolamo de Rada, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Lina Sandell.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Gegenbaur ranks 3,482 out of 7,253. Before her are Daniel Steibelt (1765), Willibald Pirckheimer (1470), Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809), Hans Meyer (1858), Siegfried Rauch (1932), and Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser (1540). After her are Franz Tunder (1614), Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805), Edzard I, Count of East Frisia (1462), Werner Peter (1950), Rudolph, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1576), and Friedrich Dickel (1913).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Karl Gegenbaur ranks 101. Before her are Wilhelm Roux (1850), Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper (1742), Joseph Gaertner (1732), Carl Ludwig Koch (1778), Jacques Loeb (1859), and Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809). After her are Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831), Archibald Reiss (1875), Otto Wilhelm Thomé (1840), Johann Georg Wagler (1800), Moritz Wagner (1813), and Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845).

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