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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 33,016 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach is the 285th most popular mathematician (up from 367th in 2019), the 1,912th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,532nd in 2019) and the 34th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach ranks 285 out of 1,004. Before him are George Atwood, Edward Waring, Lloyd Shapley, Abraham bar Hiyya, John Edensor Littlewood, and Kunihiko Kodaira. After him are Marino Ghetaldi, Lorenzo Mascheroni, Viktor Bunyakovsky, Michael Maestlin, Pavel Alexandrov, and Helge von Koch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1800, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach ranks 28. Before him are Princess Elisabeth of Savoy, Pauline Therese of Württemberg, Jean-Jacques Ampère, Roberto de Visiani, Thomas Babington Macaulay, and Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After him are Henri Milne-Edwards, Achille Devéria, George Bentham, Ányos Jedlik, John Nelson Darby, and Charles Rogier. Among people deceased in 1834, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach ranks 16. Before him are William Carey, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Husein Gradaščević, Jacques Balmat, Karl Ludwig Harding, and Infanta Maria Francisca of Braganza. After him are Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium, Aleksey Arakcheyev, Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, James Weddell, and Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach ranks 1,912 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernst Engel (1821), Duchess Caroline Mariane of Mecklenburg (1821), Guido Buchwald (1961), Elvira Madigan (1867), Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1667), and Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke (1889). After him are Ulrich von Hassell (1881), Frederick VII, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1647), Simon Mayr (1763), Ulric Neisser (1928), Frederick of Utrecht (780), and William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1602).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach ranks 34. Before him are Eduard Heine (1821), Edmund Landau (1877), Michael Stifel (1487), Andreas Osiander (1498), Adolf Hurwitz (1859), and Carl David Tolmé Runge (1856). After him are Michael Maestlin (1550), Wilhelm Ackermann (1896), Gotthold Eisenstein (1823), August Leopold Crelle (1780), Johann Friedrich Pfaff (1765), and Nicholas Mercator (1620).

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