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Petrus Camper

1722 - 1789

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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

Among physicians, Petrus Camper ranks 342 out of 502Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1722, Petrus Camper ranks 17Before 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 13Before 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.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Petrus Camper ranks 391 out of 1,427Before 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).

Among PHYSICIANS In Netherlands

Among physicians born in Netherlands, Petrus Camper ranks 12Before 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).