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C. L. Gloger

1803 - 1863

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Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger (17 September 1803 near Grottkau, Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia – 30 December 1863 in Berlin) was a German zoologist and ornithologist. Gloger was the first person to recognise the structural differences between swallows and swifts, and also the first to put up artificial bat boxes. He was the originator of what is now known as Gloger's rule, which states that dark pigments increase in races of animals (birds were the examples in which he originally noticed the pattern) living in warm and humid habitats. He put forward this theory in his Das Abändern der Vögel durch Einfluss des Klimas (1833). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. C. L. Gloger is the 272nd most popular biologist (up from 410th in 2019), the 366th most popular biography from Poland (up from 652nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Polish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, C. L. Gloger ranks 272 out of 1,097. Before him are Erik Pontoppidan, Alexander von Middendorff, Carl Gustav Carus, Desmond Morris, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, and Francisco Varela. After him are Jack W. Szostak, Carl Ludwig Blume, Leopold Fitzinger, Morten Thrane Brünnich, Sergei Winogradsky, and James Rothman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, C. L. Gloger ranks 23. Before him are Alexander Georg von Bunge, Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony, James Brooke, Jacques Charles François Sturm, Ferenc Deák, and Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville. After him are Robert Stephenson, Friedrich von Amerling, Muhammad IV of Morocco, John Ericsson, Karl Gützlaff, and Peter Chanel. Among people deceased in 1863, C. L. Gloger ranks 20. Before him are Auguste Bravais, Archduke Maximilian of Austria-Este, Solomon Northup, Natalia Pushkina, Christian Friedrich Hebbel, and Lalla Fatma N'Soumer. After him are Sam Houston, Eilhard Mitscherlich, Radama II, Mangas Coloradas, Peter Andreas Munch, and Princess Maria Augusta of Saxony.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, C. L. Gloger ranks 366 out of 1,694. Before him are Johannes Bugenhagen (1485), Andreas Gryphius (1616), Avraham Stern (1907), Ernst Wilimowski (1916), Ewald Georg von Kleist (1700), and Stanislav Kosior (1889). After him are Krzysztof Zanussi (1939), Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885), Leszek II the Black (1241), Stanisław Koniecpolski (1591), Ludwig Gumplowicz (1838), and Ernst Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1863).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Poland

Among biologists born in Poland, C. L. Gloger ranks 5. Before him are Günter Blobel (1936), Georg Forster (1754), Ferdinand Cohn (1828), and Adolf Engler (1844). After him are Johann Reinhold Forster (1729), Julius von Sachs (1832), Johannes Thiele (1860), Martin Rathke (1793), Władysław Taczanowski (1819), Gustav Radde (1831), and Michael Sela (1924).

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