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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 36,114 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Nicolaus Michael Oppel is the 681st most popular biologist (down from 609th in 2019), the 4,115th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,547th in 2019) and the 133rd most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Nicolaus Michael Oppel ranks 681 out of 841Before him are Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, Ernst Hartert, Émile Oustalet, Otto Stapf, Charles Alexandre Lesueur, and Alexander Agassiz. After him are Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer, Jacques Miller, Jan Frederik Gronovius, John Richardson, Antoine Risso, and Carl Chun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1782, Nicolaus Michael Oppel ranks 40Before him are Georgios Kountouriotis, Julius Vincenz von Krombholz, Georg August Goldfuss, Daniel Webster, Steen Steensen Blicher, and Marie-Anne Libert. After him are Lewis Cass, Charles James Napier, and Thomas Hart Benton. Among people deceased in 1820, Nicolaus Michael Oppel ranks 34Before him are Antonín Vranický, Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Gerhard von Kügelgen, Karl Ludwig Sand, Ivan Gudovich, and Alexis Thérèse Petit. After him are Palisot de Beauvois, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Charles Blagden, Stephen Decatur, William Wyatt Bibb, and Levi Lincoln Sr..

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Nicolaus Michael Oppel ranks 4,115 out of 6,142Before him are Peter Altmaier (1958), Bernd Förster (1956), Ulf Timmermann (1962), Ludwig Bechstein (1801), Friedrich Chrysander (1826), and Rainer Zobel (1948). After him are Arthur Rudolph (1906), Udo Beyer (1955), Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer (1829), Gerhard Rohlfs (1892), Albrecht Unsöld (1905), and Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Nicolaus Michael Oppel ranks 133Before him are Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (1794), Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (1798), Charlotte Auerbach (1899), Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708), Eduard Oscar Schmidt (1823), and Ernst Hartert (1859). After him are Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer (1829), Carl Chun (1852), Johannes Baptista von Albertini (1769), Friedrich Boie (1789), Anton Reichenow (1847), and Wilhelm Hofmeister (1824).