ASTRONOMER

Wilhelm Beer

1797 - 1850

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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 48,585 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Beer is the 231st most popular astronomer (down from 166th in 2019), the 2,732nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,064th in 2019) and the 40th most popular German Astronomer.

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  • 54.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Wilhelm Beer ranks 231 out of 644. Before him are George William Hill, Antonín Mrkos, Cyril Jackson, Alexis Bouvard, Jérôme Eugène Coggia, and Nancy Roman. After him are Adriaan Blaauw, Wang Zhenyi, Maximilian Hell, Muhyi al-Din al-Maghribi, Agrippa, and Cleostratus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Wilhelm Beer ranks 46. Before him are Princess Hermine of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, James Ferguson, Jeremias Gotthelf, January Suchodolski, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant, and Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille. After him are Friedrich von Lütke, Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, El Hadj Umar Tall, Karl Otfried Müller, Henry E. Steinway, and Innocent of Alaska. Among people deceased in 1850, Wilhelm Beer ranks 34. Before him are Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, Lorenzo Bartolini, Heinrich Christian Schumacher, Carl Sigismund Kunth, Margaret Fuller, and Princess Frederica Wilhelmina of Prussia. After him are Gustav Schwab, Bashir Shihab II, Lodewijk van Heiden, Adalbert Gyrowetz, Richard Mentor Johnson, and Charles Rivière-Hérard.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Beer ranks 2,732 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernst Wollweber (1898), Friedrich Spee (1591), Karl Vogt (1817), Johann Niemann (1913), Johann Froben (1460), and Balthasar, Landgrave of Thuringia (1336). After him are Edmund Stoiber (1941), Marie of Baden-Sponheim (1507), Friedrich Traun (1876), August Schmidhuber (1901), Karl Gutzkow (1811), and Michael Kiske (1968).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Wilhelm Beer ranks 40. Before him are Martin Schwarzschild (1912), Erasmus Reinhold (1511), Johann Heinrich von Mädler (1794), Heinrich Christian Schumacher (1780), Johannes Fabricius (1587), and Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834). After him are Johannes Schöner (1477), Wilhelm von Biela (1782), Maria Clara Eimmart (1676), Freimut Börngen (1930), Otto Lesser (1830), and Carl Gustav Witt (1866).

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