BIOLOGIST

Nicolaus Michael Oppel

1782 - 1820

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Nicolaus Michael Oppel (December 7, 1782 in Schönficht – February 16, 1820 in Munich) was a German naturalist. He was a student of, and worked as an assistant to, André Marie Constant Duméril (1774-1860) at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, France, cataloging and classifying species of reptiles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicolaus Michael Oppel has received more than 38,084 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Nicolaus Michael Oppel is the 653rd most popular biologist (up from 680th in 2019), the 4,294th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,102nd in 2019) and the 144th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Nicolaus Michael Oppel ranks 653 out of 1,097. Before him are Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter, Josef August Schultes, Władysław Taczanowski, Pier Andrea Saccardo, John Sims, and Tommaso Salvadori. After him are Michael Sela, Jean René Constant Quoy, John du Pont, Jacob Bjerknes, George Albert Boulenger, and Ferdinand Albin Pax.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1782, Nicolaus Michael Oppel ranks 43. Before him are Daniel Webster, Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer, Maha Bandula, Angelo Mai, Steen Steensen Blicher, and Georgios Kountouriotis. After him are Lewis Cass, Anthimus VI of Constantinople, Marie-Anne Libert, Charles James Napier, John Sell Cotman, and Thomas Hart Benton. Among people deceased in 1820, Nicolaus Michael Oppel ranks 35. Before him are Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Antonín Vranický, Karl Ludwig Sand, Ivan Gudovich, Alexis Thérèse Petit, and Louise Caroline of Hochberg. After him are Charles Blagden, Stephen Decatur, Claudine Picardet, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Palisot de Beauvois, and Levi Lincoln Sr..

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Nicolaus Michael Oppel ranks 4,294 out of 7,253. Before him are Ludwig Berger (1892), Theo Waigel (1939), Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg (1593), Oliver Masucci (1968), Albrecht von Graefe (1828), and Kornelia Ender (1958). After him are Johann Nicolaus Bach (1669), John II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1584), Alfred Keller (1882), Felix Graf von Bothmer (1852), Brigitte Fassbaender (1939), and Joachim Fuchsberger (1927).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Nicolaus Michael Oppel ranks 144. Before him are Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708), Max Carl Wilhelm Weber (1852), Magnus Manske (1974), Adam Lonicer (1528), Karl Hugo Strunz (1910), and Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter (1733). After him are Eduard Oscar Schmidt (1823), Hugo von Mohl (1805), Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (1798), Ole Borch (1626), Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt (1773), and Ernst Stromer (1871).

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