BIOLOGIST

Lorenz Oken

1779 - 1851

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Lorenz Oken (1 August 1779 – 11 August 1851) was a German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lorenz Oken has received more than 131,988 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Lorenz Oken is the 238th most popular biologist (up from 307th in 2019), the 1,898th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,498th in 2019) and the 34th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Lorenz Oken ranks 238 out of 1,097Before him are Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, Ludwik Fleck, Carl Gustav Carus, Howard Martin Temin, Vladimir Demikhov, and Nehemiah Grew. After him are James Rothman, Willi Hennig, Rudolf Vrba, Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, William Aiton, and Antoine Béchamp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1779, Lorenz Oken ranks 15Before him are Antoine-Henri Jomini, Thomas Moore, Giovanni Battista Bugatti, Abd al-Rahman of Morocco, Adam Oehlenschläger, and Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily. After him are Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Madeleine Sophie Barat, Archduke Anton Victor of Austria, George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Infanta María Amalia of Spain. Among people deceased in 1851, Lorenz Oken ranks 21Before him are Rama III, Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, John James Audubon, Karl Lachmann, Mikhail Lazarev, and Albert Lortzing. After him are Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, Vincenz Priessnitz, Karl Gützlaff, Leopold, Prince of Salerno, and Princess Maria Christina of Saxony.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Lorenz Oken ranks 1,898 out of 7,253Before him are Friedrich Hossbach (1894), Dieter Schwarz (1939), Ernst Busch (1900), Heinrich Göbel (1818), Henry XIII, Duke of Bavaria (1235), and Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann (1870). After him are Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach (1759), Johann Kirnberger (1721), Walter Stennes (1895), Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis (1860), Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1633), and Friedrich Krupp (1787).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Lorenz Oken ranks 34Before him are Friedrich Parrot (1791), Hans Driesch (1867), Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771), Carl Bernhard von Trinius (1778), Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775), and Carl Gustav Carus (1789). After him are Willi Hennig (1913), Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (1797), Carl Correns (1864), Hermann Schlegel (1804), Johann Baptist von Spix (1781), and Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1916).