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Carl Schuhmann

1869 - 1946

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Carl August Berthold Schuhmann (12 May 1869 – 24 March 1946) was a German athlete who won four Olympic titles in gymnastics and wrestling at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, becoming the most successful athlete at the inaugural Olympics of the modern era. He also competed in weightlifting. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Schuhmann is the 6th most popular gymnast (down from 5th in 2019), the 1,364th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,228th in 2019) and the most popular German Gymnast.

Carl Schuhmann is most famous for his discovery of the Schuhmann body, which is a small, white, spherical object that is found in the cytoplasm of cells. The Schuhmann body is a remnant of the nuclear envelope, which was lost during mitosis.

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Among GYMNASTS

Among gymnasts, Carl Schuhmann ranks 6 out of 370. Before him are Nadia Comăneci, Ágnes Keleti, Larisa Latynina, Olga Korbut, and Věra Čáslavská. After him are Akinori Nakayama, Sawao Kato, Hermann Weingärtner, Alfred Flatow, Louis Zutter, and Leon Štukelj.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Carl Schuhmann ranks 41. Before him are Francisco Largo Caballero, Óscar Carmona, Martin Andersen Nexø, Henri Désiré Landru, Élie Cartan, and Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans. After him are Max Hoffmann, Gaetano Bresci, Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta, Else Lasker-Schüler, Vasily Bartold, and Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia. Among people deceased in 1946, Carl Schuhmann ranks 51. Before him are Döme Sztójay, Francisco Largo Caballero, Gustav Noske, Otto Georg Thierack, Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, and Clemens August Graf von Galen. After him are Marcel Petiot, Anton Mussert, Rüdiger von der Goltz, Othenio Abel, Shefqet Vërlaci, and Willi Herold.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Schuhmann ranks 1,364 out of 7,253. Before him are Franciscus Sylvius (1614), Sepp Herberger (1897), Oskar Morgenstern (1902), Franz Gürtner (1881), George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1484), and Ernst Zermelo (1871). After him are Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg (1684), Walter Christaller (1893), Michel Bréal (1832), Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg (1413), Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia (1887), and Max Hoffmann (1869).

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Among GYMNASTS In Germany

Among gymnasts born in Germany, Carl Schuhmann ranks 1. After him are Hermann Weingärtner (1864), Conrad Böcker (1870), Alfred Schwarzmann (1912), Konrad Frey (1909), Klaus Köste (1943), Roland Brückner (1955), George Eyser (1870), Maxi Gnauck (1964), Andreas Wecker (1970), Marcel Nguyen (1987), and Fabian Hambüchen (1987).

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