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Willi Hennig

1913 - 1976

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Emil Hans Willi Hennig (20 April 1913 – 5 November 1976) was a German biologist and zoologist who is considered the founder of phylogenetic systematics, otherwise known as cladistics. In 1945 as a prisoner of war, Hennig began work on his theory of cladistics, which he published in German in 1950, with a substantially revised English translation published in 1966. With his works on evolution and systematics he revolutionised the view of the natural order of beings. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Willi Hennig has received more than 103,154 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Willi Hennig is the 240th most popular biologist (down from 213th in 2019), the 1,905th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,826th in 2019) and the 35th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Willi Hennig ranks 240 out of 1,097. Before him are Carl Gustav Carus, Howard Martin Temin, Vladimir Demikhov, Nehemiah Grew, Lorenz Oken, and James Rothman. After him are Rudolf Vrba, Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, William Aiton, Antoine Béchamp, Carl Correns, and Hermann Schlegel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Willi Hennig ranks 94. Before him are Pinetop Perkins, Heinz Kohut, Pierre Werner, Mary Leakey, Franck Pourcel, and Alexander Marinesko. After him are Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, Georgy Flyorov, Álvaro Cunhal, Lucien Goldmann, Maurice Wilkes, and Alan Ladd. Among people deceased in 1976, Willi Hennig ranks 70. Before him are Abdul Razak Hussein, Alexandros Panagoulis, Adolph Zukor, Walter H. Schottky, Orlando Letelier, and Gottfried von Cramm. After him are Harry Nyquist, Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, Hans Richter, Gregor Piatigorsky, Sal Mineo, and Alexander Lippisch.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Willi Hennig ranks 1,905 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach (1759), Johann Kirnberger (1721), Walter Stennes (1895), Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis (1860), Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1633), and Friedrich Krupp (1787). After him are Ernst Engel (1821), Duchess Caroline Mariane of Mecklenburg (1821), Guido Buchwald (1961), Elvira Madigan (1867), Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1667), and Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke (1889).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Willi Hennig ranks 35. Before him are Hans Driesch (1867), Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771), Carl Bernhard von Trinius (1778), Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775), Carl Gustav Carus (1789), and Lorenz Oken (1779). After him are Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (1797), Carl Correns (1864), Hermann Schlegel (1804), Johann Baptist von Spix (1781), Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1916), and Eduard Rüppell (1794).

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