GEOLOGIST

Oskar Lenz

1848 - 1925

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Oskar Lenz (13 April 1848 in Leipzig – 1 March 1925 in Sooß) was a German-Austrian geologist and mineralogist born in Leipzig. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oskar Lenz has received more than 20,172 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Oskar Lenz is the 55th most popular geologist (down from 48th in 2019), the 4,563rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,049th in 2019) and the 11th most popular German Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Oskar Lenz ranks 55 out of 90Before him are Luigi Palmieri, Gerard De Geer, Henry Clifton Sorby, Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Ferdinand Zirkel, and Harry Rosenbusch. After him are Hugo Benioff, Joseph Thomson, Pentti Eskola, James Hall, Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, and Archibald Geikie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Oskar Lenz ranks 94Before him are Alexander Kazbegi, Hubert Parry, Princess Frederica of Hanover, Henry Augustus Rowland, Gustav Fischer, and Margaret Lindsay Huggins. After him are Gunnar Knudsen, William Frederick Denning, Adolf Lang, Robert Planquette, Josef Václav Myslbek, and George Romanes. Among people deceased in 1925, Oskar Lenz ranks 122Before him are Richard Teichmann, Konrad Mägi, Amy Lowell, Liao Zhongkai, Roger de Barbarin, and Alexandru Marghiloman. After him are Samuel Berger, Charles Collignon, Jean de Reszke, Zivar bey Ahmadbeyov, Ignacio Andrade, and Herbert Lawford.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Oskar Lenz ranks 4,563 out of 7,253Before him are Dana Wynter (1931), Emilie Snethlage (1868), Inge Meysel (1910), Rudolf Kittel (1853), Oskar Messter (1866), and Cuno Hoffmeister (1892). After him are Christian Gmelin (1792), Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1825), Hans Goldschmidt (1861), Otto Gebühr (1877), Jens Weißflog (1964), and Friedrich Wilhelm Schultz (1804).

Among GEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among geologists born in Germany, Oskar Lenz ranks 11Before him are Julius von Haast (1822), Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann (1797), Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald (1902), Ferdinand von Hochstetter (1829), Ferdinand Zirkel (1838), and Harry Rosenbusch (1836). After him are Rudolf Geiger (1894).