BIOLOGIST

Karl Möbius

1825 - 1908

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Karl August Möbius (7 February 1825 in Eilenburg – 26 April 1908 in Berlin) was a German zoologist who was a pioneer in the field of ecology and a director of the Natural History Museum in Berlin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Möbius has received more than 50,267 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Möbius is the 401st most popular biologist (down from 303rd in 2019), the 3,022nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,459th in 2019) and the 77th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Karl Möbius ranks 401 out of 1,097Before him are August Batsch, Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, Martha Chase, Gregory Winter, Jean Cabanis, and Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz. After him are Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck, Marie Stopes, Carl Borivoj Presl, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, Emil Christian Hansen, and Georg Eberhard Rumphius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, Karl Möbius ranks 42Before him are Friedrich Bayer, Julius Oppert, Charles Joshua Chaplin, Alexander Mozhaysky, Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani, and Benedetto Cairoli. After him are Giovanni Fattori, Jean-Baptiste Arban, Đuro Daničić, Jules Barbier, Ferdinand von Mueller, and Bernardo Guimarães. Among people deceased in 1908, Karl Möbius ranks 50Before him are Ouida, Friedrich Traun, Georgy Voronoy, Mustafa Kamil Pasha, Holger Drachmann, and Cut Nyak Dhien. After him are Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì, Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Nikolai Linevich, Giovanni Fattori, Abraham Goldfaden, and Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Möbius ranks 3,022 out of 7,253Before him are Franka Potente (1974), Charles Elliot (1801), Olga Benário Prestes (1908), William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (1560), Hugo Schiff (1834), and Norbert Burgmüller (1810). After him are Richard Wilhelm (1873), Salomea of Berg (1093), Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776), Johann Theodor of Bavaria (1703), Ulf Kirsten (1965), and Oliver Hirschbiegel (1957).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Karl Möbius ranks 77Before him are Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823), Ernst Schäfer (1910), Princess Therese of Bavaria (1850), Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (1805), August Batsch (1761), and Jean Cabanis (1816). After him are Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776), Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1627), Johann Jakob Heckel (1790), Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743), Alexander Braun (1805), and Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied (1782).