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Marcus Elieser Bloch

1723 - 1799

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Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723–1799) was a German physician and naturalist who is best known for his contribution to ichthyology through his multi-volume catalog of plates illustrating the fishes of the world. Brought up in a Hebrew-speaking Jewish family, he learned German and Latin and studied anatomy before settling in Berlin as a physician. He amassed a large natural history collection, particularly of fish specimens. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcus Elieser Bloch has received more than 75,934 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Marcus Elieser Bloch is the 406th most popular physician (down from 380th in 2019), the 3,219th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,924th in 2019) and the 71st most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Marcus Elieser Bloch ranks 406 out of 726. Before him are Charles Estienne, Andrew Yao, Ron Wyatt, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Rufus of Ephesus, and Paul Julius Möbius. After him are William Stewart Halsted, Alfonso López Trujillo, Paul Neumann, René Favaloro, Kusumoto Ine, and Adrien Proust.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1723, Marcus Elieser Bloch ranks 22. Before him are Tobias Mayer, Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Princess Mary of Great Britain, Antoine Louis, Pehr Osbeck, and William Blackstone. After him are William Chambers, Philip II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, William Livingston, John Byron, Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet, and Pedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes. Among people deceased in 1799, Marcus Elieser Bloch ranks 25. Before him are Jean-François Marmontel, Johann Hedwig, Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, Pierre Pigneau de Behaine, and Claude Balbastre. After him are Jean-Étienne Montucla, Patrick Henry, Giuseppe Parini, Pierre Charles Le Monnier, Johann Julius Walbaum, and William Curtis.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Marcus Elieser Bloch ranks 3,219 out of 7,253. Before him are Dieter Hoeneß (1953), Rosemarie Ackermann (1952), Louis VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1658), Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1827), Jörg Breu the Elder (1475), and Arno Schmidt (1914). After him are Heike Drechsler (1964), Sandra Hüller (1978), Albert III, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (1373), Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1905), Kurt Hahn (1886), and Paul Friedrich August Ascherson (1834).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Marcus Elieser Bloch ranks 71. Before him are Karl Friedrich Burdach (1776), Hans Münch (1911), Richard Wilhelm (1873), Wilhelm Griesinger (1817), Theodor Meynert (1833), and Paul Julius Möbius (1853). After him are Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (1766), Ferdinand von Mueller (1825), Caspar Peucer (1525), Johann Lukas Schönlein (1793), Oskar Vogt (1870), and Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833).

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