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BIOLOGIST

Oscar Hertwig

1849 - 1922

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Oscar Hertwig (21 April 1849 in Friedberg – 25 October 1922 in Berlin) was a German embryologist and zoologist known for his research in developmental biology and evolution. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oscar Hertwig has received more than 78,311 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 19 in 2019). Oscar Hertwig is the 429th most popular biologist (down from 304th in 2019), the 3,177th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,335th in 2019) and the 84th most popular German Biologist.

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  • 18

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  • 1.86

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Oscar Hertwig ranks 429 out of 841. Before him are Alexander Braun, Otto Friedrich Müller, Franz Xaver von Wulfen, Auguste Chevalier, Harald Sverdrup, and Johann Hedwig. After him are Henri Ernest Baillon, Imre Frivaldszky, Karl Gegenbaur, Heinrich Kuhl, Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck, and Benedykt Dybowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Oscar Hertwig ranks 61. Before him are Sergei Ivanovich Mosin, Luther Burbank, Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Ruy Barbosa, Jean Richepin, and Emma Lazarus. After him are Albert Heim, Jérôme Eugène Coggia, Charles F. Brush, Richard Lydekker, Jacob Riis, and Gerhard Munthe. Among people deceased in 1922, Oscar Hertwig ranks 78. Before him are Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Arthur Griffith, Kabayama Sukenori, Lord Leopold Mountbatten, Otto Lehmann, and Pavle Jurišić Šturm. After him are William Stewart Halsted, Louis Duchesne, Henry Bataille, Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Max von Hausen, and Patrick Manson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Oscar Hertwig ranks 3,177 out of 6,142. Before him are Daniel Steibelt (1765), Theodor Körner (1791), Adolf Lüderitz (1834), Tanita Tikaram (1969), Jackson Browne (1948), and Kurt Schmitt (1886). After him are Karl Lehmann (1936), Paul Leni (1885), Karl Philipp Moritz (1756), Louis Paulsen (1833), Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1748), and Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg (1852).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Oscar Hertwig ranks 84. Before him are Ludwig Reichenbach (1793), Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831), Hermann Burmeister (1807), Adolf Mayer (1843), Georg Franz Hoffmann (1760), and Alexander Braun (1805). After him are Karl Gegenbaur (1826), Heinrich Kuhl (1797), Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776), Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider (1750), Carl Friedrich von Ledebour (1786), and Otto Wilhelm Thomé (1840).

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