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 85,482 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Oscar Hertwig is the 555th most popular biologist (down from 428th in 2019), the 3,867th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,174th in 2019) and the 123rd most popular German Biologist.

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  • 57.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Oscar Hertwig ranks 555 out of 1,097. Before him are John Gilbert Baker, Alice Hamilton, Otto Kuntze, Augustin Saint-Hilaire, Salomon Müller, and Johann Gerhard König. After him are Edward Forbes, Andrew Smith, Johannes Burman, Mary Agnes Chase, Karl Alfred von Zittel, and Edward Turner Bennett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Oscar Hertwig ranks 73. Before him are Emma Lazarus, Giovanni Passannante, Carl Fredrik Hill, Józef Chełmoński, William Knox D'Arcy, and Hugo von Seeliger. After him are Christian Rohlfs, Jacob Riis, Pedro Montt, Richard Lydekker, Prosper-René Blondlot, and Henry Clay Frick. Among people deceased in 1922, Oscar Hertwig ranks 93. Before him are Anna Missuna, Henri Brocard, Patrick Manson, Henry Bataille, Emil Frey, and Hannes Hafstein. After him are Elizabeth Jane Gardner, Jorge Montt, Otto Lehmann, William Henry Hudson, Takamine Jōkichi, and Ernest Lavisse.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Oscar Hertwig ranks 3,867 out of 7,253. Before him are Elisabeth Schumann (1888), Karl-Jesko von Puttkamer (1900), Stefan Reuter (1966), Ferdinand Mannlicher (1848), Joseph Vilsmaier (1939), and Karin Büttner-Janz (1952). After him are August Heinrich Petermann (1822), Herluf Bidstrup (1912), Peer Steinbrück (1947), Dora Gerson (1899), Günther Schwägermann (1915), and Michael Verhoeven (1938).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Oscar Hertwig ranks 123. Before him are Basilius Besler (1561), Albrecht Thaer (1752), Johann Friedrich Meckel (1781), Otto von Münchhausen (1716), Otto Kuntze (1843), and Salomon Müller (1804). After him are Karl Alfred von Zittel (1839), Eduard August von Regel (1815), Blasius Merrem (1761), Johann Heinrich Blasius (1809), Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer (1782), and Jacob Sturm (1771).

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