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Carl Chun

1852 - 1914

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Carl Chun or Karl Friedrich Gustav Chun (1 October 1852 – 11 April 1914) was a German marine biologist who worked as a professor at the Universities of Königsberg (1883), Breslau (1891) and Leipzig (1898). He was a pioneer of German oceanographic research, organizing the first deep-sea expedition aboard the SS Valdivia in 1898-99. He spent much of his life studying the collections made during the expedition, and was responsible for discovering many marine organisms, including the vampire squid. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Chun is the 486th most popular biologist (up from 597th in 2019), the 3,112th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,068th in 2019) and the 94th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl Chun ranks 486 out of 1,097. Before him are Georg Franz Hoffmann, Otto Wilhelm Thomé, Lucien Quélet, Ivan Regen, Benedykt Dybowski, and Lorenz Heister. After him are Johannes Thiele, Wilder Penfield, Jan Svatopluk Presl, Zhores Medvedev, David Starr Jordan, and Vladimir Demikhov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Carl Chun ranks 62. Before him are László Mednyánszky, Otakar Ševčík, Eugène Mougin, Bruno Abakanowicz, Jean-Louis Forain, and Francisco Moreno. After him are Charles Villiers Stanford, Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Kodama Gentarō, Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz, Mikoláš Aleš, and George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg. Among people deceased in 1914, Carl Chun ranks 64. Before him are Yu Kil-chun, Roque Sáenz Peña, Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, Giovanni Sgambati, Félix Bracquemond, and Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen. After him are Pierre Souvestre, David Gill, Adlai Stevenson I, Constantine V of Constantinople, Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg, and Ellen Axson Wilson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Chun ranks 3,114 out of 7,253. Before him are Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt (1901), Armin Hary (1937), Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796), Otto Ambros (1901), Hans Graf von Sponeck (1888), and Gustave Whitehead (1874). After him are Friedrich von Gärtner (1791), Johann Rosenmüller (1619), Günter Eich (1907), Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1844), Albrecht Ritschl (1822), and Henryk Zygalski (1908).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Carl Chun ranks 94. Before him are Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (1665), Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied (1782), Heinrich Schrader (1767), Georg Franz Hoffmann (1760), Otto Wilhelm Thomé (1840), and Lorenz Heister (1683). After him are Salomon Müller (1804), Paul Friedrich August Ascherson (1834), Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809), Johann Jakob Heckel (1790), Jacques Loeb (1859), and Eduard August von Regel (1815).

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