BIOLOGIST

Ludwig Carl Christian Koch

1825 - 1908

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Ludwig Carl Christian Koch (8 November 1825 – 1 November 1908) was a German entomologist and arachnologist. He was born in Regensburg, Germany, and died in Nuremberg, Germany. He studied in Nuremberg, initially law, but then turned to medicine and science. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ludwig Carl Christian Koch has received more than 30,685 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Ludwig Carl Christian Koch is the 910th most popular biologist (down from 880th in 2019), the 5,137th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,731st in 2019) and the 185th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Ludwig Carl Christian Koch ranks 910 out of 1,097Before him are Sereno Watson, Thomas Nuttall, Ruth Patrick, Colin Munro MacLeod, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, and Ann Bishop. After him are G. Ledyard Stebbins, Nikolai Turczaninow, Jan-Just Bos, Wilhelm Philippe Schimper, Mark Catesby, and Jon E. Ahlquist.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, Ludwig Carl Christian Koch ranks 81Before him are Richard Maack, R. M. Ballantyne, A. P. Hill, Francisco Antonino Vidal, William McGonagall, and James Collinson. After him are Francisco Linares Alcántara, James Skivring Smith, Albrecht Weber, John Lawrence LeConte, Antoinette Brown Blackwell, and R. D. Blackmore. Among people deceased in 1908, Ludwig Carl Christian Koch ranks 98Before him are Manuel Curros Enríquez, José Manuel Marroquín, Marco Aurelio Soto, Henry Bird, American Horse, and Federico Chueca. After him are Charles Augustus Young, John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, Harriet Hosmer, Redvers Buller, John Taylor, and Thomas Hill.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ludwig Carl Christian Koch ranks 5,137 out of 7,253Before him are Don Zagier (1951), Walter Gordon (1893), Gustav-Adolf Schur (1931), Erich Hamann (1944), Malu Dreyer (1961), and Heinrich Schomburgk (1885). After him are Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (1912), Julian Brandt (1996), Jörg Drehmel (1945), Wolfgang Sidka (1954), Hildegard Falck (1949), and Ralf König (1960).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Ludwig Carl Christian Koch ranks 185Before him are Heinrich Moritz Willkomm (1821), Gustav Lindau (1866), Hermann Harms (1870), Jakob Emanuel Lange (1864), Johann August Ephraim Goeze (1731), and Otto Bütschli (1848). After him are George Engelmann (1809), Johann Wilhelm Meigen (1764), Rudolf Schlechter (1872), Alexander Wendt (1958), Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller (1862), and Tilly Edinger (1897).