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Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg

1795 - 1876

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Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (19 April 1795 – 27 June 1876) was a German naturalist, zoologist, botanist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist. He is considered to be one of the most famous and productive scientists of his time. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg is the 103rd most popular biologist (up from 122nd in 2019), the 706th most popular biography from Germany (up from 973rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular German Biologist.

Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg is most famous for his discovery of the bacteria that causes cholera.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg ranks 103 out of 1,097Before him are Pierre André Latreille, Nikolai Vavilov, Erwin Neher, Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Janaki Ammal, and Ulisse Aldrovandi. After him are Georges J. F. Köhler, Philip Miller, Jean-Henri Fabre, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, and Christiaan Hendrik Persoon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1795, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg ranks 8Before him are Frederick William IV of Prussia, Leopold von Ranke, John Keats, Anna Pavlovna of Russia, Thomas Carlyle, and Pavel Jozef Šafárik. After him are Ernst Heinrich Weber, Rowland Hill, Gabriel Lamé, Antonio José de Sucre, Dingane kaSenzangakhona, and Dred Scott. Among people deceased in 1876, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg ranks 11Before him are Antonio López de Santa Anna, Karl Ernst von Baer, George Armstrong Custer, Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Truganini, and Catherine Labouré. After him are Ildefons Cerdà, Marie d'Agoult, George Smith, Antoine Jérôme Balard, Hristo Botev, and Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg ranks 706 out of 7,253Before him are Johannes Peter Müller (1801), Robert Huber (1937), Walter Hallstein (1901), Prince William of Hesse-Kassel (1787), Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt (1765), and Frederick IV, Elector Palatine (1574). After him are Richard Baer (1911), Hans Morgenthau (1904), Ernst Udet (1896), Julia Drusilla (16), Prince Leopold of Bavaria (1846), and Frank Farian (1941).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg ranks 14Before him are Hans Spemann (1869), August Weismann (1834), Katherine Oppenheimer (1910), Ernst Mayr (1904), Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942), and Erwin Neher (1944). After him are Georges J. F. Köhler (1946), Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771), Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748), Bernard Katz (1911), Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709), and Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739).