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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 44,744 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Karl Gegenbaur is the 432nd most popular biologist (up from 439th in 2019), the 3,186th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,935th in 2019) and the 85th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Karl Gegenbaur ranks 432 out of 841. Before her are Auguste Chevalier, Harald Sverdrup, Johann Hedwig, Oscar Hertwig, Henri Ernest Baillon, and Imre Frivaldszky. After her are Heinrich Kuhl, Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck, Benedykt Dybowski, William Jackson Hooker, Alfred Grandidier, and Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, Karl Gegenbaur ranks 35. Before her are Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Hormuzd Rassam, Giovanni Battista Donati, William Waddington, Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, and Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava. After her are Charles Barbier de Meynard, Franz Grashof, Mohamed Sherif Pasha, Richard Christopher Carrington, Princess Augusta of Württemberg, and Gustave Moynier. Among people deceased in 1903, Karl Gegenbaur ranks 47. Before her are Giuseppe Zanardelli, Charles Renouvier, Augusta Holmès, Auguste Kerckhoffs, Kusumoto Ine, and Ozaki Kōyō. After her are Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, Harriet Lane, Tang Jingsong, Lina Sandell, Emily Warren Roebling, and Konstantinos Paspatis.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Gegenbaur ranks 3,186 out of 6,142. Before her are Karl Philipp Moritz (1756), Louis Paulsen (1833), Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1748), Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg (1852), Rudi Gutendorf (1926), and Max Jakob Friedländer (1867). After her are Friedrich von Gärtner (1791), Percy Adlon (1935), Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1633), Leonor Michaelis (1875), Heinrich Kuhl (1797), and Albert Ballin (1857).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Karl Gegenbaur ranks 85. Before her are Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831), Hermann Burmeister (1807), Adolf Mayer (1843), Georg Franz Hoffmann (1760), Alexander Braun (1805), and Oscar Hertwig (1849). After her are Heinrich Kuhl (1797), Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776), Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider (1750), Carl Friedrich von Ledebour (1786), Otto Wilhelm Thomé (1840), and Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845).

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