1797 - 1850
Wilhelm Wolff Beer (4 January 1797 – 27 March 1850) was a banker and astronomer from Berlin, Prussia, and the brother of Giacomo Meyerbeer. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Beer has received more than 44,788 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Wilhelm Beer is the 166th most popular astronomer (down from 158th in 2019), the 2,066th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,882nd in 2019) and the 31st most popular German Astronomer.
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Among astronomers, Wilhelm Beer ranks 166 out of 531. Before him are Andreas Cellarius, N. R. Pogson, Henry Draper, Cleomedes, Antonio Abetti, and George William Hill. After him are Margaret Burbidge, Maria Cunitz, Andrea M. Ghez, Michael H. Hart, Auguste Charlois, and Abu-Mahmud Khojandi.
1596 - 1665
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 160
1829 - 1891
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 161
1837 - 1882
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 162
110 - 1
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 163
1846 - 1928
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 164
1838 - 1914
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 165
1797 - 1850
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 166
1919 - 2020
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 167
1610 - 1664
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 168
1965 - Present
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 169
1932 - Present
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 170
1864 - 1910
HPI: 55.09
Rank: 171
940 - 1000
HPI: 55.03
Rank: 172
Among people born in 1797, Wilhelm Beer ranks 33. Before him are Sojourner Truth, Ida Laura Pfeiffer, Giuditta Pasta, Kamehameha II, Said bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. After him are Antonio Rosmini, Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant, Princess Hermine of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Princess Maria Antonia Koháry, and Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel. Among people deceased in 1850, Wilhelm Beer ranks 27. Before him are Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este, Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, William Sturgeon, Adam Oehlenschläger, Johann Gottfried Schadow, and William Prout. After him are Gustav Schwab, John C. Calhoun, Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, Margaret Fuller, Lorenzo Bartolini, and Princess Frederica Wilhelmina of Prussia.
1797 - 1883
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 27
1797 - 1858
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 28
1797 - 1865
HPI: 56.23
Rank: 29
1797 - 1824
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 30
1797 - 1856
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 31
1797 - 1848
HPI: 55.92
Rank: 32
1797 - 1850
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 33
1797 - 1855
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 34
1797 - 1878
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 35
1797 - 1886
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 36
1797 - 1817
HPI: 54.91
Rank: 37
1797 - 1862
HPI: 54.33
Rank: 38
1797 - 1889
HPI: 54.27
Rank: 39
1781 - 1850
HPI: 57.21
Rank: 21
1774 - 1850
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 22
1783 - 1850
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 23
1779 - 1850
HPI: 55.94
Rank: 24
1764 - 1850
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 25
1785 - 1850
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 26
1797 - 1850
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 27
1792 - 1850
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 28
1782 - 1850
HPI: 55.00
Rank: 29
1777 - 1850
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 30
1810 - 1850
HPI: 54.33
Rank: 31
1777 - 1850
HPI: 54.33
Rank: 32
1796 - 1850
HPI: 53.86
Rank: 33
Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Beer ranks 2,066 out of 6,142. Before him are Friedrich Hoffmann (1660), Karl Frenzel (1911), Govert Flinck (1615), Karl Lachmann (1793), Carl Ludvig Engel (1778), and Eduard Wirths (1909). After him are Klaus Kinkel (1936), Otto Brunfels (1488), Joachim Schepke (1912), Hans Poelzig (1869), Louis of Nassau (1538), and Magdalene of Bavaria (1587).
1660 - 1742
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 2,060
1911 - 1996
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 2,061
1615 - 1660
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 2,062
1793 - 1851
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 2,063
1778 - 1840
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 2,064
1909 - 1945
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 2,065
1797 - 1850
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 2,066
1936 - 2019
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 2,067
1488 - 1534
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 2,068
1912 - 1941
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 2,069
1869 - 1936
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 2,070
1538 - 1574
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 2,071
1587 - 1628
HPI: 55.33
Rank: 2,072
Among astronomers born in Germany, Wilhelm Beer ranks 31. Before him are Hermann Goldschmidt (1802), Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670), Johann Franz Encke (1791), Hermann Carl Vogel (1841), Tobias Mayer (1723), and Andreas Cellarius (1596). After him are Erasmus Reinhold (1511), August Kopff (1882), Johann Hieronymus Schröter (1745), Johann Heinrich von Mädler (1794), Johannes Fabricius (1587), and Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834).
1802 - 1866
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 25
1670 - 1720
HPI: 57.19
Rank: 26
1791 - 1865
HPI: 57.01
Rank: 27
1841 - 1907
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 28
1723 - 1762
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 29
1596 - 1665
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 30
1797 - 1850
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 31
1511 - 1553
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 32
1882 - 1960
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 33
1745 - 1816
HPI: 54.50
Rank: 34
1794 - 1874
HPI: 53.85
Rank: 35
1587 - 1616
HPI: 53.72
Rank: 36
1834 - 1882
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 37