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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 122,218 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Lorenz Oken is the 308th most popular biologist (down from 253rd in 2019), the 2,501st most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,053rd in 2019) and the 53rd most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Lorenz Oken ranks 308 out of 841Before him are Carl Nägeli, Gregory Goodwin Pincus, Karl Möbius, James Rothman, Theodor Boveri, and Pierre Gaspard Chaumette. After him are Charles Plumier, Eric F. Wieschaus, Richard Henderson, George Robert Gray, Martin Vahl, and Patrick Geddes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1779, Lorenz Oken ranks 20Before him are Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Adam Oehlenschläger, Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Madeleine Sophie Barat, Archduke Anton Victor of Austria, and Infanta María Amalia of Spain. After him are Adam Müller, Jean Coralli, Francis Scott Key, Filippo Paulucci, Johann Schweigger, and Ali-Morad Khan Zand. Among people deceased in 1851, Lorenz Oken ranks 27Before him are Leopold, Prince of Salerno, Karl Lachmann, Vincenz Priessnitz, Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta, Karl Gützlaff, and Princess Maria Christina of Saxony. After him are Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, Göran Wahlenberg, Baji Rao II, Alexander Alyabyev, Stanko Vraz, and Carl Friedrich von Ledebour.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Lorenz Oken ranks 2,501 out of 6,142Before him are Stephen the Posthumous (1236), Rudi Altig (1937), Matthias Weckmann (1619), Götz George (1938), Adalbert of Hamburg (1000), and Walter Ruttmann (1887). After him are Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1591), Stephen I, Duke of Bavaria (1271), Christoph, Duke of Württemberg (1515), William Louis, Duke of Württemberg (1647), Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg (1602), and Cornelia Funke (1958).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Lorenz Oken ranks 53Before him are Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802), Wilhelm Peters (1815), Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (1797), Christian Ludwig Brehm (1787), Karl Möbius (1825), and Theodor Boveri (1862). After him are Albert Günther (1830), Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (1811), Ernst Schäfer (1910), Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767), Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725), and Carl Ludwig Blume (1796).