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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 95,788 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Willi Hennig is the 214th most popular biologist (down from 191st in 2019), the 1,828th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,575th in 2019) and the 29th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Willi Hennig ranks 214 out of 841Before him are Hideyo Noguchi, Adam Afzelius, David Baltimore, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, and Georges J. F. Köhler. After him are Thomas Browne, Pierre Belon, Michael Rosbash, Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Michael W. Young, and Erik Acharius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Willi Hennig ranks 95Before him are Bill Shankly, José Sánchez del Río, Alexander Marinesko, Victor Mature, Franck Pourcel, and Neelam Sanjiva Reddy. After him are Álvaro Cunhal, Mickey Cohen, Heinrich Bär, Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, 'Abd al-Ilah, and Pinetop Perkins. Among people deceased in 1976, Willi Hennig ranks 70Before him are Phil Ochs, Mikhail Gurevich, Géza Anda, David Elazar, Alexandros Panagoulis, and Lee J. Cobb. After him are Mickey Cohen, Walter H. Schottky, Gilbert Ryle, Adolph Zukor, Mukaghali Makatayev, and Yukio Goto.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Willi Hennig ranks 1,828 out of 6,142Before him are Duchess Amalie in Bavaria (1865), Bruno Streckenbach (1902), Karl-Adolf Hollidt (1891), Sigmar Polke (1941), Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1746), and Hans-Gert Pöttering (1945). After him are Erdoğan Atalay (1966), Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1735), Georg Ratzinger (1924), Carl Friedrich Zelter (1758), Margaret Sambiria (1230), and George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1605).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Willi Hennig ranks 29Before him are Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757), Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795), Carl Gustav Carus (1789), Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806), Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1916), and Georges J. F. Köhler (1946). After him are Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765), Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771), Friedrich Loeffler (1852), Joseph Gaertner (1732), Hieronymus Bock (1498), and Otto Brunfels (1488).