BIOLOGIST

Otto von Münchhausen

1716 - 1774

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Otto II. Freiherr von Münchhausen (11 June 1716 – 13 July 1774) was a German botanist. He was Chancellor of University of Göttingen and a correspondent of Linnaeus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto von Münchhausen has received more than 12,063 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Otto von Münchhausen is the 547th most popular biologist (down from 459th in 2019), the 3,835th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,395th in 2019) and the 120th most popular German Biologist.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Otto von Münchhausen has had the most page views in the with 1,751 views, followed by German (1,205), and Portuguese (671). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Afrikaans (49.31%), Romanian (46.79%), and Low Saxon (20.92%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Otto von Münchhausen ranks 547 out of 1,097. Before him are Albrecht Thaer, Johann Friedrich Meckel, Alfred Newton, Jean-Pierre Changeux, Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, and Harald Sverdrup. After him are Akira Miyawaki, John Gilbert Baker, Alice Hamilton, Otto Kuntze, Augustin Saint-Hilaire, and Salomon Müller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1716, Otto von Münchhausen ranks 19. Before him are Pehr Kalm, Eugenios Voulgaris, Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, and Jean François de Saint-Lambert. After him are Gaspar de Portolá, Capability Brown, and George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville. Among people deceased in 1774, Otto von Münchhausen ranks 18. Before him are Johann Friedrich Agricola, Florian Leopold Gassmann, Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg, Anna Morandi Manzolini, and Johan Peter Falk. After him are Henry Baker, Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, and William Hewson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto von Münchhausen ranks 3,835 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich Paulsen (1846), Magdalene of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (1553), Hans Klenk (1919), Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar (1740), Karl Hein (1908), and Irmgard Keun (1905). After him are Albert Bassermann (1867), Rudolf von Bünau (1890), Wilhelm Kühne (1837), Ruth Pfau (1929), Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line (1858), and Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (1900).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Otto von Münchhausen ranks 120. Before him are Johann Friedrich Naumann (1780), Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider (1750), Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (1794), Basilius Besler (1561), Albrecht Thaer (1752), and Johann Friedrich Meckel (1781). After him are Otto Kuntze (1843), Salomon Müller (1804), Oscar Hertwig (1849), Karl Alfred von Zittel (1839), Eduard August von Regel (1815), and Blasius Merrem (1761).

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