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Carl H. Eigenmann

1863 - 1927

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Carl Henry Eigenmann (March 9, 1863 – April 24, 1927) was a German-American ichthyologist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who, along with his wife Rosa Smith Eigenmann, and his zoology students is credited with identifying and describing for the first time 195 genera containing nearly 600 species of fishes of North America and South America. Especially notable among his published papers are his studies of the freshwater fishes of South America, the evolution and systematics of South American fishes, and for his analysis of degenerative evolution based on his studies of blind cave fishes found in parts of North America and in Cuba. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl H. Eigenmann is the 909th most popular biologist (up from 1,007th in 2019), the 4,845th most popular biography from Germany (up from 5,563rd in 2019) and the 180th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl H. Eigenmann ranks 909 out of 1,097. Before him are Palisot de Beauvois, Sereno Watson, Louis Fraser, Joseph Banks Rhine, Joseph Barcroft, and Keith Campbell. After him are Stanley Norman Cohen, Jenny Clack, Edward Newton, Janet Rowley, François Gagnepain, and Robert Wight.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Carl H. Eigenmann ranks 151. Before him are João Pinheiro Chagas, Camille Erlanger, Marguerite Audoux, Edgar Syers, Dmitry Grave, and Ekvtime Takaishvili. After him are Ida Freund, Stanisław Zaremba, William Henry Young, Corrado Segre, Outram Bangs, and Dimitar Stanchov. Among people deceased in 1927, Carl H. Eigenmann ranks 129. Before him are Henri Hubert, Franz Mertens, Sascha Schneider, Édouard Louis Trouessart, Friedrich von Scholtz, and Émile Albrecht. After him are Virgilio Mantegazza, Marcus Loew, Ödön Bodor, C. E. Ruthenberg, Anna Golubkina, and Sarah Frances Whiting.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl H. Eigenmann ranks 4,848 out of 7,253. Before him are Paul Warburg (1868), Ilona Slupianek (1956), Henning von Holtzendorff (1853), Gerhard Lamprecht (1897), Lya Lys (1908), and Wilhelm Geiger (1856). After him are Jakob van Hoddis (1887), Oswald Teichmüller (1913), Hermann Oldenberg (1854), Wolfgang Blochwitz (1941), Walter Behrendt (1914), and Serge Gnabry (1995).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Carl H. Eigenmann ranks 180. Before him are Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller (1862), Hermann Harms (1870), Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus (1835), Jakob Emanuel Lange (1864), Johann August Ephraim Goeze (1731), and Otto Bütschli (1848). After him are Johann Christoph Wendland (1755), Johann Wilhelm Meigen (1764), Philipp Christoph Zeller (1808), Curt Backeberg (1894), Tilly Edinger (1897), and Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727).

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