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Leonhart Fuchs

1501 - 1566

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Leonhart Fuchs (German: [ˈleːɔnhaʁt ˈfʊks]; 17 January 1501 – 10 May 1566), sometimes spelled Leonhard Fuchs and cited in Latin as Leonhartus Fuchsius, was a German physician and botanist. His chief notability is as the author of a large book about plants and their uses as medicines, a herbal, which was first published in 1542 in Latin. It has about 500 accurate and detailed drawings of plants, which were printed from woodcuts. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonhart Fuchs has received more than 162,375 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Leonhart Fuchs is the 190th most popular physician (up from 208th in 2019), the 1,316th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,415th in 2019) and the 25th most popular German Physician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Leonhart Fuchs by language

Over the past year Leonhart Fuchs has had the most page views in the with 23,073 views, followed by German (8,691), and Spanish (3,563). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Manx (490.32%), Swedish (172.99%), and Latin (92.20%)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Leonhart Fuchs ranks 190 out of 726. Before him are Hans Sloane, Werner Haase, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Leonid Rogozov, Maurice Bucaille, and Guy de Chauliac. After him are Sebastian Kneipp, Heo Jun, Louis Ignarro, Peter Agre, Paul Gachet, and Baruch Samuel Blumberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1501, Leonhart Fuchs ranks 9. Before him are Pope Marcellus II, Isabella of Austria, Garcilaso de la Vega, Bairam Khan, Queen Munjeong, and Yi Hwang. After him are Sahib I Giray, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Ivan Susanin, Perino del Vaga, Hemu, and Francisco de Ulloa. Among people deceased in 1566, Leonhart Fuchs ranks 7. Before him are Suleiman the Magnificent, Nostradamus, Bartolomé de las Casas, Diane de Poitiers, Nikola IV Zrinski, and Daniele da Volterra. After him are Louise Labé, Antonio de Cabezón, Sigismund von Herberstein, Margaret Paleologa, Jan Sanders van Hemessen, and Taddeo Zuccari.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Leonhart Fuchs ranks 1,316 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernst Albrecht (1930), Franz, Duke of Bavaria (1933), Christiane F. (1962), Friedrich Dollmann (1882), Heinz Lammerding (1905), and Karl-Otto Apel (1922). After him are Johann Friedrich Böttger (1682), Sebastian Kneipp (1821), John George II, Elector of Saxony (1613), Walter Christaller (1893), Gerhard Ludwig Müller (1947), and Max Amann (1891).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Leonhart Fuchs ranks 25. Before him are Johann Joachim Becher (1635), Albert of Riga (1165), Carl Ludwig (1816), Engelbert Kaempfer (1651), August von Wassermann (1866), and Werner Haase (1900). After him are Sebastian Kneipp (1821), Ludwig Guttmann (1899), Waldemar Hoven (1903), Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818), Ernst-Günther Schenck (1904), and August Oetker (1862).

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