1722 - 1789
Petrus Camper FRS (11 May 1722 – 7 April 1789), was a Dutch physician, anatomist, physiologist, midwife, zoologist, anthropologist, palaeontologist and a naturalist in the Age of Enlightenment. He was one of the first to take an interest in comparative anatomy, palaeontology, and the facial angle. He was among the first to mark out an "anthropology," which he distinguished from natural history. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Petrus Camper has received more than 92,956 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Petrus Camper is the 342nd most popular physician, the 391st most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 367th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Dutch Physician.
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Among physicians, Petrus Camper ranks 342 out of 502. Before him are Justinus Kerner, Ewald Hering, Michael Maier, Moritz Kaposi, Richard Axel, and Frances Oldham Kelsey. After him are Carlos Chagas, Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Johann Peter Frank, Carlos Finlay, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, and Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke.
1786 - 1862
HPI: 53.44
Rank: 336
1834 - 1918
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 337
1568 - 1622
HPI: 53.32
Rank: 338
1837 - 1902
HPI: 53.30
Rank: 339
1946 - Present
HPI: 53.24
Rank: 340
1914 - 2015
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 341
1722 - 1789
HPI: 53.17
Rank: 342
1879 - 1934
HPI: 53.16
Rank: 343
1660 - 1740
HPI: 53.10
Rank: 344
1745 - 1821
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 345
1833 - 1915
HPI: 53.06
Rank: 346
1672 - 1733
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 347
1819 - 1892
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 348
Among people born in 1722, Petrus Camper ranks 17. Before him are Pietro Nardini, Amursana, Paisius Velichkovsky, Leopold Auenbrugger, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, and Paisius of Hilendar. After him are Christian IV, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Flora MacDonald, Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, and John Burgoyne. Among people deceased in 1789, Petrus Camper ranks 13. Before him are Jean-Étienne Liotard, Franz Xaver Richter, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, John Cleland, and Paolo Renier. After him are Charles-Michel de l'Épée, Anders Dahl, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, Jakob II Bernoulli, Jafar Khan, and Sayed Morad Khan.
1722 - 1793
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 11
1722 - 1757
HPI: 55.22
Rank: 12
1722 - 1794
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 13
1722 - 1809
HPI: 54.33
Rank: 14
1722 - 1788
HPI: 53.53
Rank: 15
1722 - 1773
HPI: 53.17
Rank: 16
1722 - 1789
HPI: 53.17
Rank: 17
1722 - 1775
HPI: 52.94
Rank: 18
1722 - 1790
HPI: 52.04
Rank: 19
1722 - 1799
HPI: 51.44
Rank: 20
1722 - 1792
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 21
1702 - 1789
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 7
1709 - 1789
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 8
1740 - 1789
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 9
1715 - 1789
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 10
1709 - 1789
HPI: 53.55
Rank: 11
1710 - 1789
HPI: 53.50
Rank: 12
1722 - 1789
HPI: 53.17
Rank: 13
1712 - 1789
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 14
1751 - 1789
HPI: 51.89
Rank: 15
1715 - 1789
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 16
1759 - 1789
HPI: 51.01
Rank: 17
1800 - 1789
HPI: 49.78
Rank: 18
1800 - 1789
HPI: 47.62
Rank: 19
Among people born in Netherlands, Petrus Camper ranks 391 out of 1,427. Before him are Menno van Coehoorn (1641), Hendrick de Keyser (1565), Dirk I, Count of Holland (875), Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635), Melchior d'Hondecoeter (1636), and Alexandrine Tinné (1835). After him are Thomas de Keyser (1596), Johannes van den Bosch (1780), Isaac van Ostade (1621), Bep Voskuijl (1919), Walter Lewin (1936), and Cornelis de Bruijn (1652).
1641 - 1704
HPI: 53.22
Rank: 385
1565 - 1621
HPI: 53.22
Rank: 386
875 - 939
HPI: 53.21
Rank: 387
1635 - 1681
HPI: 53.20
Rank: 388
1636 - 1695
HPI: 53.20
Rank: 389
1835 - 1869
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 390
1722 - 1789
HPI: 53.17
Rank: 391
1596 - 1667
HPI: 53.16
Rank: 392
1780 - 1844
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 393
1621 - 1649
HPI: 53.10
Rank: 394
1919 - 1983
HPI: 53.10
Rank: 395
1936 - Present
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 396
1652 - 1727
HPI: 53.08
Rank: 397
Among physicians born in Netherlands, Petrus Camper ranks 12. Before him are Nicolaes Tulp (1593), Gerard van Swieten (1700), Frederik Ruysch (1638), Franciscus Donders (1818), Aletta Jacobs (1854), and Titus Brandsma (1881). After him are Herman Snellen (1834), Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde (1873), Willem Johan Kolff (1911), Joep Lange (1954), and Wim Eijk (1953).
1593 - 1674
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 6
1700 - 1772
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 7
1638 - 1731
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 8
1818 - 1889
HPI: 55.05
Rank: 9
1854 - 1929
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 10
1881 - 1942
HPI: 54.01
Rank: 11
1722 - 1789
HPI: 53.17
Rank: 12
1834 - 1908
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 13
1873 - 1937
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 14
1911 - 2009
HPI: 49.67
Rank: 15
1954 - 2014
HPI: 48.09
Rank: 16
1953 - Present
HPI: 47.37
Rank: 17