ANTHROPOLOGIST

Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring

1755 - 1830

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Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring (28 January 1755 – 2 March 1830) was a German physician, anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor. Sömmerring discovered the macula in the retina of the human eye. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring has received more than 69,000 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring is the 40th most popular anthropologist (up from 41st in 2019), the 664th most popular biography from Poland (down from 640th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Anthropologist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 1.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring ranks 40 out of 93. Before him are Franco Basaglia, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Marcel Griaule, Jean Malaurie, David Graeber, and Paolo Mantegazza. After him are Aleš Hrdlička, Louis Dumont, Georges Vacher de Lapouge, Lubor Niederle, John Lloyd Stephens, and Birutė Galdikas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring ranks 30. Before him are John Flaxman, John Marshall, Alemdar Mustafa Pasha, Gaspard de Prony, Nicolas-Jacques Conté, and Jean-Nicolas Corvisart. After him are Gilbert Stuart, Fausto Elhuyar, Anacharsis Cloots, Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, Sarah Siddons, and Robert Kerr. Among people deceased in 1830, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring ranks 22. Before him are Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis, Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Dominique Vandamme, Swaminarayan, and Pierre Rode. After him are Elizabeth Monroe, Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Marcos Portugal, William Hazlitt, Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg, and Jan Śniadecki.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring ranks 664 out of 1,694. Before him are George I, Duke of Pomerania (1493), Nathan Alterman (1910), Erich Abraham (1895), Władysław Odonic (1190), Stanisława Leszczyńska (1896), and Jankel Adler (1895). After him are Lazarus Fuchs (1833), Aleksander Gierymski (1850), Henryk Jabłoński (1909), Władysław Bartoszewski (1922), Philip I, Duke of Pomerania (1515), and Karl Friedrich Lessing (1808).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Poland

Among anthropologists born in Poland, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring ranks 2. Before him are Bronisław Malinowski (1884).

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