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Caspar Friedrich Wolff

1735 - 1794

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Caspar Friedrich Wolff (18 January 1733 – 22 February 1794) was a German physiologist and embryologist who is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of modern embryology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Caspar Friedrich Wolff is the 265th most popular physician (down from 244th in 2019), the 1,839th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,755th in 2019) and the 39th most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Caspar Friedrich Wolff ranks 265 out of 726. Before him are Wim Eijk, May-Britt Moser, Karl Adolph von Basedow, Cicely Saunders, Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, and François Magendie. After him are Clarke Abel, Bernard Kouchner, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus, Pierre Paul Émile Roux, Henry Gray, and Hieronymus Fabricius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1735, Caspar Friedrich Wolff ranks 10. Before him are Crown Prince Sado, François Christophe de Kellermann, Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, Ibrahim Bey, and August Ludwig von Schlözer. After him are Torbern Bergman, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, John Carroll, Paul Revere, Ahmad al-Tijani, and Johann Karl August Musäus. Among people deceased in 1794, Caspar Friedrich Wolff ranks 29. Before him are Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Adolphus Frederick IV, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Gottfried August Bürger, James Lind, Henri de la Rochejaquelein, and Jean-Baptiste Carrier. After him are Jacques Roux, Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach, Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Fabre d'Églantine, and James Bruce.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Caspar Friedrich Wolff ranks 1,839 out of 7,253. Before him are Dieter Rams (1932), Heinrich Marschner (1795), Hans Langsdorff (1894), Joos van Cleve (1485), Friedrich Ebert Jr. (1894), and Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1800). After him are Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (1962), Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern (1932), Friedrich Albert Lange (1828), Rudolf Lange (1910), Franz Ernst Neumann (1798), and Gustav von Schmoller (1838).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Caspar Friedrich Wolff ranks 39. Before him are Ernst-Robert Grawitz (1899), Ernst-Günther Schenck (1904), Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818), Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (1766), Leonhart Fuchs (1501), and Karl Adolph von Basedow (1799). After him are Friedrich Kasimir Medikus (1736), Johann Conrad Dippel (1673), Eduard Wirths (1909), August Oetker (1862), Hans Berger (1873), and Ernst Gräfenberg (1881).

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