Biologist

Lorenz Oken

German naturalist

1779 - 1851

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His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2024). Lorenz Oken is the 290th most popular biologist (down from 238th in 2024), the 1,982nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,898th in 2019) and the 46th most popular German Biologist.

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Among Biologists

Among biologists, Lorenz Oken ranks 290 out of 1,121. Before him are John Gould, René Louiche Desfontaines, Michael Rosbash, Michael W. Young, Odoardo Beccari, and Johann Jakob von Tschudi. After him are Otto Brunfels, Jean Cabanis, Armen Takhtajan, Juliane Koepcke, Peter Medawar, and George Bentham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1779, Lorenz Oken ranks 16. Before him are Antoine-Henri Jomini, Giovanni Battista Bugatti, Thomas Moore, Madeleine Sophie Barat, Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily, and Abd al-Rahman of Morocco. After him are Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Infanta María Amalia of Spain, Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Archduke Anton Victor of Austria, and Jean Coralli. Among people deceased in 1851, Lorenz Oken ranks 21. Before him are Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, John James Audubon, Mikhail Lazarev, Rama III, Albert Lortzing, and Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link. After him are Karl Lachmann, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, Dean Mahomed, Karl Gützlaff, Vincenz Priessnitz, and Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Lorenz Oken ranks 1,982 out of 8,184. Before him are Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen (1310), Karl Eberhard Schöngarth (1903), Wilhelm Rediess (1900), Henry XIII, Duke of Bavaria (1235), Andreas Cellarius (1596), and Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern (1890). After him are George, Duke of Bavaria (1455), Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria (1870), Friedrich Wilhelm II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1603), Marianne Brandt (1893), Herbert von Bismarck (1849), and August Oetker (1862).

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Among Biologists In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Lorenz Oken ranks 46. Before him are Carl Sigismund Kunth (1788), Friedrich Parrot (1791), Carl Gustav Carus (1789), Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806), Carl Ludwig Blume (1796), and Eduard Rüppell (1794). After him are Otto Brunfels (1488), Jean Cabanis (1816), Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (1811), Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725), Jacob Christian Schäffer (1718), and Hieronymus Bock (1498).

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