BIOLOGIST

Martin Rathke

1793 - 1860

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Martin Heinrich Rathke (25 August 1793, Danzig – 3 September 1860, Königsberg) was a German embryologist and anatomist. Along with Karl Ernst von Baer and Christian Heinrich Pander, he is recognized as one of the founders of modern embryology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Rathke has received more than 20,918 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Martin Rathke is the 608th most popular biologist (down from 486th in 2019), the 866th most popular biography from Poland (down from 741st in 2019) and the 10th most popular Polish Biologist.

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Over the past year Martin Rathke has had the most page views in the with 2,154 views, followed by Russian (1,124), and Spanish (971). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Swedish (61.44%), Estonian (48.12%), and Egyptian Arabic (18.12%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Martin Rathke ranks 608 out of 1,097Before him are Heinrich von Kittlitz, Ludwig Diels, Richard Lydekker, Philip Henry Gosse, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps, and Fritz Schaudinn. After him are James Francis Stephens, Richard Goldschmidt, George Clifford III, Alfred Sturtevant, Ray Lankester, and Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1793, Martin Rathke ranks 39Before him are Lucretia Mott, Demetrios Ypsilantis, Nana Asmaʼu, Kazim Rashti, Simonas Daukantas, and Diego Portales. After him are Stephen F. Austin, Joseph Paul Gaimard, William Hopkins, Philip Barker-Webb, Felix de Muelenaere, and Jan Frans Willems. Among people deceased in 1860, Martin Rathke ranks 49Before him are Johan Ludvig Heiberg, Friedrich Silcher, Andreas Metaxas, Konstantin Aksakov, Louis Hersent, and Anders Sandøe Ørsted. After him are Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient, Nicolaas Pieneman, Lady Byron, Ludwig Bechstein, John Neumann, and William Martin Leake.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Martin Rathke ranks 866 out of 1,694Before him are Albert Chmielowski (1846), Eugene Lazowski (1913), Jędrzej Moraczewski (1870), Jurek Becker (1937), Henryk Sławik (1894), and Ignacy Potocki (1750). After him are Stanislaus Papczyński (1631), Paul Gordan (1837), Walter Thiel (1910), Janusz Gortat (1948), Klaus Hänsch (1938), and Zbigniew Oleśnicki (1389).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Poland

Among biologists born in Poland, Martin Rathke ranks 10Before him are Adolf Engler (1844), Johann Reinhold Forster (1729), Julius von Sachs (1832), C. L. Gloger (1803), Gustav Radde (1831), and Heinrich von Kittlitz (1799). After him are Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884), Władysław Taczanowski (1819), Michael Sela (1924), Wilhelm Hemprich (1796), Heinrich Göppert (1800), and Johannes Thiele (1860).