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Robert Knox

1791 - 1862

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Robert Knox (4 September 1791 – 20 December 1862) was a Scottish anatomist and ethnologist best known for his involvement in the Burke and Hare murders. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Knox eventually partnered with anatomist and former teacher John Barclay and became a lecturer on anatomy in the city, where he introduced the theory of transcendental anatomy. However, Knox's incautious methods of obtaining cadavers for dissection before the passage of the Anatomy Act 1832 and disagreements with professional colleagues ruined his career in Scotland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Knox has received more than 588,525 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Robert Knox is the 512th most popular physician (down from 481st in 2019), the 2,972nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,951st in 2019) and the 44th most popular British Physician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 3.31

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Robert Knox ranks 512 out of 726. Before him are Ugo Cerletti, Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, Vivien Thomas, Kurt Blome, Eugene Lazowski, and Oskar Minkowski. After him are Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar, Anthony Carlisle, Gazi Yaşargil, Wladimir Aïtoff, Sunao Tawara, and Édouard Gagnon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1791, Robert Knox ranks 35. Before him are Theodor Körner, Václav Hanka, Johan Ludvig Heiberg, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, William Elford Leach, and Alexis Thérèse Petit. After him are Josef Munzinger, Odilon Barrot, Adolf Ivar Arwidsson, Jean Cruveilhier, József Katona, and José Ignacio Pavón. Among people deceased in 1862, Robert Knox ranks 42. Before him are Albrecht Adam, Bernhard Severin Ingemann, Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov, José María Bocanegra, Barbu Catargiu, and Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning. After him are Frederick Townsend Ward, Carlos Anaya, François Sudre, František Škroup, Sofia Adlersparre, and Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Knox ranks 2,972 out of 8,785. Before him are Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer (1798), John Soane (1753), Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset (1436), Amy Robsart (1532), Philip Henry Gosse (1810), and Karen Spärck Jones (1935). After him are Anthony Phillips (1951), William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (1891), Michael Oakeshott (1901), Susanna Hall (1583), Sue Townsend (1946), and Enoch Powell (1912).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Robert Knox ranks 44. Before him are James Young Simpson (1811), Richard Bright (1789), Rutherford Alcock (1809), William Turner (1510), James Paget (1814), and Ernest Starling (1866). After him are Anthony Carlisle (1768), Frederick Twort (1877), Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899), Thomas Francis Wade (1818), Richard Leach Maddox (1816), and John Arbuthnot (1667).

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