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MATHEMATICIAN

Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach

1800 - 1834

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Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach (30 May 1800 – 12 March 1834) was a German geometer and the son of legal scholar Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, and the brother of philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach. After receiving his doctorate at age 22, he became a professor of mathematics at the Gymnasium at Erlangen. In 1822 he wrote a small book on mathematics noted mainly for a theorem on the nine-point circle, which is now known as Feuerbach's theorem. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach has received more than 30,487 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach is the 367th most popular mathematician (up from 407th in 2019), the 2,535th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,573rd in 2019) and the 43rd most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach ranks 367 out of 823Before him are Pierre Vernier, John G. Kemeny, Marino Ghetaldi, Philippe de La Hire, Emil Leon Post, and Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar. After him are Jim Simons, David Cox, Yang Hui, Gemma Frisius, Raymond Smullyan, and Zhu Shijie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1800, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach ranks 32Before him are Evangelos Zappas, John Nelson Darby, Jakob Lorber, Juan José Flores, Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Aga Khan I. After him are Charles Rogier, Friedrich August Stüler, Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Auguste von Harrach, Ekkathat, and Mihály Vörösmarty. Among people deceased in 1834, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach ranks 22Before him are Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, James Weddell, Giovanni Aldini, Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium, Aleksey Arakcheyev, and Robert Morrison. After him are Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Charles Lamb, Gamzat-bek, Thomas Telford, and Albrecht Wilhelm Roth.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach ranks 2,535 out of 6,142Before him are Dirk Nowitzki (1978), Josef Bürckel (1895), Princess Augusta of Prussia (1780), Heinrich Christian Schumacher (1780), Alexander von Linsingen (1850), and Hans Hartwig von Beseler (1850). After him are Gustav Fröhlich (1902), Duchess Maria Anna Josepha of Bavaria (1734), Winfried Schäfer (1950), Stefan Effenberg (1968), Hajo Herrmann (1913), and Carlos Schwabe (1866).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach ranks 43Before him are Philipp Ludwig von Seidel (1821), Gerhard Gentzen (1909), Felix Bernstein (1878), Thomas Fincke (1561), Michael Maestlin (1550), and Carl Ludwig Siegel (1896). After him are Elwin Bruno Christoffel (1829), Abraham Fraenkel (1891), Helmut Hasse (1898), Ernst Schröder (1841), Hermann Hankel (1839), and Karl Mollweide (1774).