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Philipp Franz von Siebold

1796 - 1866

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Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold (17 February 1796 – 18 October 1866) was a German physician, botanist and traveller. He achieved prominence by his studies of Japanese flora and fauna and the introduction of Western medicine in Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philipp Franz von Siebold has received more than 264,551 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Philipp Franz von Siebold is the 222nd most popular physician (up from 245th in 2019), the 1,557th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,720th in 2019) and the 35th most popular German Physician.

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  • 58.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Philipp Franz von Siebold ranks 222 out of 726. Before him are Thomas Bartholin, Franciscus Sylvius, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Hans Rosling, Carl von Rokitansky, and Karl Adolph von Basedow. After him are Paul of Aegina, Barry Marshall, Bernard Kouchner, Patch Adams, Regnier de Graaf, and Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1796, Philipp Franz von Siebold ranks 11. Before him are Michael Thonet, Princess Charlotte of Wales, Franz Berwald, Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg, Jakob Steiner, and Peter Fendi. After him are Carl Loewe, Ang Duong, James Bowie, Giovanni Pacini, Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein, and Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais. Among people deceased in 1866, Philipp Franz von Siebold ranks 10. Before him are Miguel I of Portugal, Karl Ludwig Hencke, Tokugawa Iemochi, William Whewell, Hermann Goldschmidt, and Chief Seattle. After him are Adolph Diesterweg, Friedrich Rückert, Paul Gavarni, Thomas Hodgkin, Rikard Nordraak, and Winfield Scott.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Philipp Franz von Siebold ranks 1,557 out of 7,253. Before him are Heinrich Füger (1751), George, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg (1582), Arnold Janssen (1837), Helmuth James von Moltke (1907), Ralph H. Baer (1922), and Ottmar Walter (1924). After him are Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765), Joos van Cleve (1485), Leo Frobenius (1873), Julius Schaub (1898), Salomon Mayer von Rothschild (1774), and Gottfried August Bürger (1747).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Philipp Franz von Siebold ranks 35. Before him are Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818), Ernst-Günther Schenck (1904), August Oetker (1862), Adolf Eugen Fick (1829), Franciscus Sylvius (1614), and Karl Adolph von Basedow (1799). After him are Hans Berger (1873), Ernst-Robert Grawitz (1899), Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1735), Ernst Gräfenberg (1881), Horst Schumann (1906), and Johann Conrad Dippel (1673).

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