1779 - 1851
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, Lorenz Oken ranks 308 out of 841. Before 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.
1817 - 1891
HPI: 53.84
Rank: 302
1903 - 1967
HPI: 53.84
Rank: 303
1825 - 1908
HPI: 53.83
Rank: 304
1950 - Present
HPI: 53.80
Rank: 305
1862 - 1915
HPI: 53.77
Rank: 306
1763 - 1794
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 307
1779 - 1851
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 308
1646 - 1704
HPI: 53.63
Rank: 309
1947 - Present
HPI: 53.58
Rank: 310
1945 - Present
HPI: 53.56
Rank: 311
1808 - 1872
HPI: 53.49
Rank: 312
1749 - 1804
HPI: 53.45
Rank: 313
1854 - 1932
HPI: 53.44
Rank: 314
Among people born in 1779, Lorenz Oken ranks 20. Before 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 27. Before 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.
1779 - 1801
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 14
1779 - 1850
HPI: 55.94
Rank: 15
1779 - 1824
HPI: 54.85
Rank: 16
1779 - 1865
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 17
1779 - 1835
HPI: 54.82
Rank: 18
1779 - 1798
HPI: 54.49
Rank: 19
1779 - 1851
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 20
1779 - 1829
HPI: 53.48
Rank: 21
1779 - 1854
HPI: 50.37
Rank: 22
1779 - 1843
HPI: 50.35
Rank: 23
1779 - 1849
HPI: 49.37
Rank: 24
1779 - 1857
HPI: 49.24
Rank: 25
1779 - 1785
HPI: 48.99
Rank: 26
1790 - 1851
HPI: 57.22
Rank: 21
1793 - 1851
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 22
1799 - 1851
HPI: 55.01
Rank: 23
1772 - 1851
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 24
1803 - 1851
HPI: 54.39
Rank: 25
1770 - 1851
HPI: 54.00
Rank: 26
1779 - 1851
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 27
1767 - 1851
HPI: 53.10
Rank: 28
1780 - 1851
HPI: 52.71
Rank: 29
1775 - 1851
HPI: 52.35
Rank: 30
1787 - 1851
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 31
1810 - 1851
HPI: 52.12
Rank: 32
1786 - 1851
HPI: 50.46
Rank: 33
Among people born in Germany, Lorenz Oken ranks 2,501 out of 6,142. Before 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).
1236 - 1271
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 2,495
1937 - 2016
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 2,496
1619 - 1674
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 2,497
1938 - 2016
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 2,498
1000 - 1072
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 2,499
1887 - 1941
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 2,500
1779 - 1851
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 2,501
1591 - 1634
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 2,502
1271 - 1310
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 2,503
1515 - 1568
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 2,504
1647 - 1677
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 2,505
1602 - 1651
HPI: 53.66
Rank: 2,506
1958 - Present
HPI: 53.64
Rank: 2,507
Among biologists born in Germany, Lorenz Oken ranks 53. Before 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).
1802 - 1879
HPI: 54.32
Rank: 47
1815 - 1883
HPI: 54.23
Rank: 48
1797 - 1848
HPI: 54.01
Rank: 49
1787 - 1864
HPI: 53.97
Rank: 50
1825 - 1908
HPI: 53.83
Rank: 51
1862 - 1915
HPI: 53.77
Rank: 52
1779 - 1851
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 53
1830 - 1914
HPI: 53.25
Rank: 54
1811 - 1871
HPI: 53.14
Rank: 55
1910 - 1992
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 56
1767 - 1851
HPI: 53.10
Rank: 57
1725 - 1776
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 58
1796 - 1862
HPI: 53.08
Rank: 59