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BIOLOGIST

Lorenz Heister

1683 - 1758

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Lorenz Heister (Latin: Laurentius Heister) (19 September 1683 – 18 April 1758) was a German anatomist, surgeon and botanist born in Frankfurt am Main. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lorenz Heister has received more than 29,156 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Lorenz Heister is the 378th most popular biologist (up from 386th in 2019), the 2,930th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,729th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Lorenz Heister ranks 378 out of 841Before him are William Aiton, Otto Kuntze, Wilhelm Roux, Daniel Solander, Camille Guérin, and Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn. After him are Carlo Allioni, Georg Eberhard Rumphius, Barry Commoner, Juan Ignacio Molina, Johann Jakob von Tschudi, and Armen Takhtajan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1683, Lorenz Heister ranks 18Before him are Christian Ludwig II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Johann David Heinichen, Burkhard Christoph von Münnich, Edward Young, Antoine Pesne, and Giovanni Poleni. After him are Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller, Christian Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Jonathan Wild, and Mark Catesby. Among people deceased in 1758, Lorenz Heister ranks 13Before him are Jonathan Edwards, Senesino, Johann Friedrich Fasch, Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Antoine de Jussieu, and Johan Helmich Roman. After him are Johann Baptist Zimmermann and Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Lorenz Heister ranks 2,930 out of 6,142Before him are Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1687), Alfred Abel (1879), Werner Goldberg (1919), Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723), Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony (1617), and Reiner Klimke (1936). After him are Freimut Börngen (1930), Otto Pfister (1937), Karl Krumbacher (1856), Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1769), Paul Ben-Haim (1897), and Alfred Schwarzmann (1912).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Lorenz Heister ranks 73Before him are Princess Therese of Bavaria (1850), Conrad Moench (1744), Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (1744), Otto Kuntze (1843), Wilhelm Roux (1850), and Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809). After him are Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1627), Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper (1742), Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied (1782), Moritz Wagner (1813), Ludwig Reichenbach (1793), and Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831).