BIOLOGIST

Matthias Jakob Schleiden

1804 - 1881

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Matthias Jakob Schleiden (German: [maˈtiːas ˈjaːkɔp ˈʃlaɪdn̩]; 5 April 1804 – 23 June 1881) was a German botanist and co-founder of cell theory, along with Theodor Schwann and Rudolf Virchow. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Matthias Jakob Schleiden has received more than 744,912 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Matthias Jakob Schleiden is the 35th most popular biologist (up from 46th in 2019), the 415th most popular biography from Germany (up from 512th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Biologist.

Matthias Jakob Schleiden was a German botanist who is most famous for being the first person to describe the cell theory.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Matthias Jakob Schleiden ranks 35 out of 1,097. Before him are Theodor Schwann, Ada Yonath, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Barbara McClintock, Albrecht Kossel, and Charles Richet. After him are Harald zur Hausen, Dian Fossey, Karl von Frisch, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Lazzaro Spallanzani, and Vladimir Vernadsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Matthias Jakob Schleiden ranks 10. Before him are Johann Strauss I, Napoléon Louis Bonaparte, Benjamin Disraeli, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Emil Lenz, and Allan Kardec. After him are Mongkut, Mikhail Glinka, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard Owen, Marie Taglioni, and Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi. Among people deceased in 1881, Matthias Jakob Schleiden ranks 8. Before him are Alexander II of Russia, Modest Mussorgsky, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Disraeli, Billy the Kid, and Lewis H. Morgan. After him are Jenny von Westphalen, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Thomas Carlyle, Auguste Mariette, Henri Vieuxtemps, and Nikolay Pirogov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Matthias Jakob Schleiden ranks 415 out of 7,253. Before him are Paul Hausser (1880), Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (1848), Karl Drais (1785), Anna Magdalena Bach (1701), Louise Mountbatten (1889), and Traudl Junge (1920). After him are Robert Ley (1890), Harald zur Hausen (1936), Jürgen Klopp (1967), Otto of Bavaria (1848), Arno Allan Penzias (1933), and Richard Willstätter (1872).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Matthias Jakob Schleiden ranks 6. Before him are Ernst Haeckel (1834), Maria Sibylla Merian (1647), Katherine Oppenheimer (1910), Theodor Schwann (1810), and Albrecht Kossel (1853). After him are Harald zur Hausen (1936), Hans Spemann (1869), Peter Simon Pallas (1741), August Weismann (1834), Ernst Mayr (1904), and Bernard Katz (1911).

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