BIOLOGIST

Leopold Fitzinger

1802 - 1884

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Leopold Joseph Franz Johann Fitzinger (13 April 1802 – 20 September 1884) was an Austrian zoologist. Fitzinger was born in Vienna and studied botany at the University of Vienna under Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin. He worked at the Vienna Naturhistorisches Museum between 1817, when he joined as a volunteer assistant, and 1821, when he left to become secretary to the provincial legislature of Lower Austria; after a hiatus, he was appointed assistant curator in 1844 and remained at the Naturhistorisches Museum until 1861. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leopold Fitzinger has received more than 82,662 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Leopold Fitzinger is the 293rd most popular biologist (up from 443rd in 2019), the 480th most popular biography from Austria (up from 637th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Austrian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Leopold Fitzinger ranks 293 out of 1,097. Before him are Josif Pančić, Hieronymus Bock, Rudolf Weigl, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, Johann Hermann, and Carl Hagenbeck. After him are Otto Brunfels, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Carl Nägeli, Friedrich Loeffler, Félix d'Herelle, and Nikolai Severtzov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Leopold Fitzinger ranks 27. Before him are Ignacy Domeyko, Charlotte Bonaparte, Carl Ritter von Ghega, Charles Auguste de Bériot, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, and Arnold Ruge. After him are Adolphe Nourrit, Frederick William, Elector of Hesse, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, Mariano Arista, Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg, and Paul-Émile Botta. Among people deceased in 1884, Leopold Fitzinger ranks 28. Before him are Hermann Schlegel, Eduard Rüppell, Cetshwayo kaMpande, George Bentham, William, Duke of Brunswick, and Eduard Totleben. After him are Juan Bautista Alberdi, François Mignet, Ludwig Richter, Pavlo Chubynsky, Hans Rott, and Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Leopold Fitzinger ranks 480 out of 1,424. Before him are Anne of Austria, Margravine of Brandenburg (1280), Elisabeth of Austria, Duchess of Lorraine (1285), Raul Hilberg (1926), Ignaz Seipel (1876), Archduchess Magdalena of Austria (1532), and Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley (1897). After him are Count Karl Sigmund von Hohenwart (1824), Ferdinand Fellner (1847), Wolf Huber (1485), Rudolf Spielmann (1883), Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897), and Pauline von Metternich (1836).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Austria

Among biologists born in Austria, Leopold Fitzinger ranks 6. Before him are Konrad Lorenz (1903), Karl Landsteiner (1868), Karl von Frisch (1886), Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901), and Othenio Abel (1875). After him are Clemens von Pirquet (1874), Erich von Tschermak (1871), Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti (1735), Joy Adamson (1910), Franz Unger (1800), and Josef August Schultes (1773).

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