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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 77,512 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Leopold Fitzinger is the 444th most popular biologist (down from 349th in 2019), the 641st most popular biography from Austria (down from 535th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Austrian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Leopold Fitzinger ranks 444 out of 841. Before him are Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, Jean-Pierre Changeux, Elisabeth Christina von Linné, Sewall Wright, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, and Jean René Constant Quoy. After him are Jan Svatopluk Presl, Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider, Carl Friedrich von Ledebour, Otto Wilhelm Thomé, and Jeanne Villepreux-Power.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Leopold Fitzinger ranks 39. Before him are Cesare Pugni, Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg, Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Württemberg, August Friedrich Pott, Louis Niedermeyer, and Robert Chambers. After him are Adolphe d'Archiac, Adolphe Niel, Edwin Landseer, Benoît Fourneyron, Ion Heliade Rădulescu, and Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen. Among people deceased in 1884, Leopold Fitzinger ranks 42. Before him are Kiến Phúc, Gotthilf Hagen, Cyrus McCormick, Juan Bautista Alberdi, Antonio García Gutiérrez, and Giuseppe De Nittis. After him are Auguste Franchomme, Augustin-Alexandre Dumont, Bernardo Guimarães, Aníbal Pinto, Julius Friedrich Cohnheim, and Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Leopold Fitzinger ranks 641 out of 1,237. Before him are Alfons Maria Stickler (1910), Prince Ludwig Gaston of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1870), Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller (1683), Hilde Holger (1905), Ernst Toch (1887), and Hans Hass (1919). After him are Karl Schranz (1938), Richard Oswald (1880), Berta Karlik (1904), Gerhard Hanappi (1929), František Svoboda (1906), and Franz Josef Popp (1886).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Austria

Among biologists born in Austria, Leopold Fitzinger ranks 9. Before him are Karl von Frisch (1886), Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901), Joy Adamson (1910), Erich von Tschermak (1871), Othenio Abel (1875), and Clemens von Pirquet (1874). After him are Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti (1735), Franz Unger (1800), Ignaz Schiffermüller (1727), Franz Steindachner (1834), Josef August Schultes (1773), and Johann Natterer (1787).

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