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Carl Ludwig Koch

1778 - 1857

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Carl Ludwig Koch (21 September 1778 – 23 August 1857) was a German entomologist and arachnologist. He was responsible for classifying a great number of spiders, including the Brazilian whiteknee tarantula and common house spider. He was born in Kusel in the Holy Roman Empire, and died in Nuremberg, Germany. Carl Ludwig Koch was an inspector of water and forests. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Ludwig Koch is the 558th most popular biologist (down from 466th in 2019), the 3,479th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,436th in 2019) and the 108th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl Ludwig Koch ranks 558 out of 1,097. Before her are George Newbold Lawrence, Marie Jules César Savigny, Emilie Snethlage, Casimir de Candolle, Frédéric de Lafresnaye, and Sarah Gilbert. After her are René Maire, Ludwig Diels, Agostino Bassi, Johann Friedrich Naumann, Karl Möbius, and Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1778, Carl Ludwig Koch ranks 32. Before her are Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac, Francisco Manuel Blanco, Sigismund von Neukomm, Joseph Lancaster, Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, and Princess Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After her are Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko, Carl Bernhard von Trinius, Sahle Dengel, Joseph Aspdin, Anders Sandøe Ørsted, and Henry, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen. Among people deceased in 1857, Carl Ludwig Koch ranks 43. Before her are William Brown, Agustina de Aragón, Nasir-ud-Daulah, Johann Jakob Heckel, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, and Manuel José Quintana. After her are Johann Friedrich Naumann, Abraham Jacob van der Aa, Wei Yuan, Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy, Juan Lindo, and Johann Schweigger.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Ludwig Koch ranks 3,481 out of 7,253. Before her are Engelbert II of Berg (1185), Ingo Schwichtenberg (1965), Franz Joseph, 9th Prince of Thurn and Taxis (1893), Konrad Ernst Ackermann (1712), Erwin Rösener (1902), and Prince Sigismund of Prussia (1896). After her are Johannes Lingelbach (1622), Paul Wallot (1841), Hermann, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1832), Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (1989), Hannes Löhr (1942), and Rudolph Augustus, Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1627).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Carl Ludwig Koch ranks 108. Before her are Ernst Schäfer (1910), Johann Jakob Bernhardi (1774), Eugen Fischer (1874), Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (1805), Rolf Singer (1906), and Emilie Snethlage (1868). After her are Ludwig Diels (1874), Johann Friedrich Naumann (1780), Karl Möbius (1825), Alwin Berger (1871), Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (1798), and Karl Friedrich von Gaertner (1772).

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