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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 70,339 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Marcus Elieser Bloch is the 381st most popular physician (down from 349th in 2019), the 2,927th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,579th in 2019) and the 65th most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Marcus Elieser Bloch ranks 381 out of 502. Before him are Crawford Long, Adrien Proust, Johann von Staupitz, Ali ibn Ridwan, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, and René Favaloro. After him are Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, Anders Chydenius, James Barry, Alfonso López Trujillo, and Stamen Grigorov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1723, Marcus Elieser Bloch ranks 24. Before him are Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, John Byron, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, William Chambers, William Blackstone, and Pehr Osbeck. After him are Philip II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, William Livingston, Pedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes, Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet, Richard Price, and Peter Ascanius. Among people deceased in 1799, Marcus Elieser Bloch ranks 24. Before him are Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, Jean-François Marmontel, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Patrick Henry, Pierre Pigneau de Behaine, and Claude Balbastre. After him are Pierre Charles Le Monnier, William Curtis, Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, Johann Hedwig, Giuseppe Parini, and Francesco Mario Pagano.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Marcus Elieser Bloch ranks 2,927 out of 6,142. Before him are Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern (1868), Max Dehn (1878), Carl Peters (1856), Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1687), Alfred Abel (1879), and Werner Goldberg (1919). After him are Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony (1617), Reiner Klimke (1936), Lorenz Heister (1683), Freimut Börngen (1930), Otto Pfister (1937), and Karl Krumbacher (1856).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Marcus Elieser Bloch ranks 65. Before him are Karl Friedrich Burdach (1776), Adolph Kolping (1813), Adolf Kussmaul (1822), Theodor Meynert (1833), Johann von Staupitz (1465), and Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (1766). After him are Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1762), Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833), Johann Lukas Schönlein (1793), Wilhelm Griesinger (1817), Friedrich von Esmarch (1823), and Kurt Blome (1894).

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