GEOLOGIST

Christian Leopold von Buch

1774 - 1853

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Christian Leopold von Buch (26 April 1774 – 4 March 1853), usually cited as Leopold von Buch, was a German geologist and paleontologist born in Stolpe an der Oder (now a part of Angermünde, Brandenburg) and is remembered as one of the most important contributors to geology in the first half of the nineteenth century. His scientific interest was devoted to a broad spectrum of geological topics: volcanism, petrology, fossils, stratigraphy and mountain formation. His most remembered accomplishment is the scientific definition of the Jurassic system. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Christian Leopold von Buch is the 21st most popular geologist (down from 17th in 2019), the 1,650th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,589th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Christian Leopold von Buch ranks 21 out of 90. Before him are Gideon Mantell, Vasily Dokuchaev, Walter Alvarez, William Smith, Adam Sedgwick, and Jean-André Deluc. After him are Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, Ignacy Domeyko, Giuseppe Mercalli, William Buckland, Norman L. Bowen, and John Tuzo Wilson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1774, Christian Leopold von Buch ranks 14. Before him are Gaspare Spontini, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, and William Henry. After him are Charles Bell, Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, André Marie Constant Duméril, Matthew Flinders, and Robert Southey. Among people deceased in 1853, Christian Leopold von Buch ranks 15. Before him are Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Leopold Gmelin, Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński, Matteo Carcassi, and Bezmiâlem Sultan. After him are Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Princess Amalia of Sweden, Tokugawa Ieyoshi, Karl, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Juan Donoso Cortés, and Julius Jacob von Haynau.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Christian Leopold von Buch ranks 1,650 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans Speidel (1897), Wilhelm Zaisser (1893), Princess Margaret of Prussia (1872), Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg (1706), Georg Kerschensteiner (1854), and Ludwig Borchardt (1863). After him are Fritz Bauer (1903), Wilhelm Backhaus (1884), Hans Vaihinger (1852), Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller (1806), Jürgen Kohler (1965), and Marianne Weber (1870).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among geologists born in Germany, Christian Leopold von Buch ranks 4. Before him are Alfred Wegener (1880), Friedrich Mohs (1773), and Beno Gutenberg (1889). After him are Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann (1797), Ferdinand Zirkel (1838), Harry Rosenbusch (1836), Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald (1902), Julius von Haast (1822), Ferdinand von Hochstetter (1829), Oskar Lenz (1848), and Rudolf Geiger (1894).

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