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Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson

1809 - 1848

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Dr Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson (26 November 1809 in Stralsund – 18 December 1848 in Berlin) was a trained medical doctor and a German entomologist. He was the author of many articles about insects mainly in Archiv für Naturgeschichte. When writing in Latin, he latinised Wilhelm to Guillelmus becoming either Guil. F. Erichson or G.F. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson has received more than 18,817 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson is the 656th most popular physician, the 5,322nd most popular biography from Germany and the 102nd most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson ranks 656 out of 726Before him are Sir George Staunton, 1st Baronet, Divna Veković, John Heysham Gibbon, Bennet Omalu, James Ewing, and Narendra Dabholkar. After him are Mary Putnam Jacobi, William Stokes, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, Harald Natvig, Yoshioka Yayoi, and Thomas Starzl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson ranks 70Before him are Nestor Kukolnik, Giuseppe Giusti, Thomas Campbell Eyton, Ștefan Golescu, George Engelmann, and Juan Antonio Pezet. After him are Svend Foyn, Sterling Price, Fanny Kemble, Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Francis Walker, and Robert M. T. Hunter. Among people deceased in 1848, Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson ranks 61Before him are Pedro Vélez, Heinrich Zschokke, Avdotia Istomina, Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, Javier de Burgos, and Isaac D'Israeli.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson ranks 5,322 out of 7,253Before him are Marcell Jansen (1985), Brigitte Zypries (1953), Nancy Faeser (1970), Horst Meyer (1941), Rolf Landauer (1927), and Paul Koebe (1882). After him are Willy Bandholz (1912), Ursula Karven (1964), Udo Zimmermann (1943), Hauschka (1966), Harry Groener (1951), and Paul Günther (1882).

Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson ranks 102Before him are Paul Hermann (1646), Julius Friedrich Cohnheim (1839), Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff (1807), Edzard Ernst (1948), Harry Benjamin (1885), and Paul Möhring (1710). After him are Hinrich Romeike (1963).