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Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich

1806 - 1886

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Otto Wilhelm Hermann Abich (11 December 1806 – 1 July 1886) was a German mineralogist and geologist who was among the first to conduct scientific studies in the Caucasus region and has been called the Father of Caucasian Geology. He worked briefly at the University of Dorpat and then travelled as part of the Corps of Mining Engineers of the Russian Empire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich has received more than 23,488 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich is the 211th most popular biologist (up from 231st in 2019), the 1,787th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,916th in 2019) and the 26th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich ranks 211 out of 841Before him are Jérôme Lejeune, Albert von Kölliker, Robert Gallo, Hideyo Noguchi, Adam Afzelius, and David Baltimore. After him are Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Georges J. F. Köhler, Willi Hennig, Thomas Browne, Pierre Belon, and Michael Rosbash.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich ranks 20Before him are Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Duchenne de Boulogne, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, Charles Gleyre, and Antoine Wiertz. After him are William, Duke of Brunswick, Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Karl Friedrich Mohr, John A. Roebling, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Among people deceased in 1886, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich ranks 15Before him are Alexander Ostrovsky, Ilya Ulyanov, Alexander Butlerov, Prince Louis, Count of Trani, Pierre-Jules Hetzel, and Asher Brown Durand. After him are Karl von Piloty, Lydia Koidula, Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois, Eliza Lynch, Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust, and Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich ranks 1,787 out of 6,142Before him are Friedrich Hossbach (1894), Carl Reichenbach (1788), Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein (1885), Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria (1752), Johann Trollmann (1907), and Margravine Louise Charlotte of Brandenburg (1617). After him are Cerdic of Wessex (467), Albert Bormann (1902), Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (1852), Felix Nussbaum (1904), Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1916), and Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1691).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich ranks 26Before him are Hans Driesch (1867), Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748), Friedrich Parrot (1791), Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757), Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795), and Carl Gustav Carus (1789). After him are Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1916), Georges J. F. Köhler (1946), Willi Hennig (1913), Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765), Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771), and Friedrich Loeffler (1852).