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Eduard Rüppell

1794 - 1884

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Wilhelm Peter Eduard Simon Rüppell, also spelled Rueppell (20 November 1794 – 10 December 1884) was a German naturalist and explorer, best known for his collections and descriptions of plants and animals from Africa and Arabia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eduard Rüppell is the 279th most popular biologist (down from 256th in 2019), the 1,898th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,005th in 2019) and the 45th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Eduard Rüppell ranks 279 out of 1,097. Before him are Jack W. Szostak, Carl Ludwig Blume, Leopold Fitzinger, Morten Thrane Brünnich, Sergei Winogradsky, and James Rothman. After him are Nathaniel Wallich, Johann Hermann, Hideyo Noguchi, André Marie Constant Duméril, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, and John Gould.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, Eduard Rüppell ranks 15. Before him are Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Józef Bem, Ignaz Moscheles, William Whewell, Léon Cogniet, and Johann Heinrich von Mädler. After him are Eilhard Mitscherlich, Ami Boué, Jacques Collin de Plancy, Mirza Shafi Vazeh, Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld. Among people deceased in 1884, Eduard Rüppell ranks 25. Before him are Hans Makart, Allan Pinkerton, Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel, Paul Abadie, Jules Bastien-Lepage, and Leopold Fitzinger. After him are Alexander, Prince of Orange, George Bentham, William, Duke of Brunswick, François Mignet, Jan Arnošt Smoler, and Hans Rott.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Eduard Rüppell ranks 1,898 out of 7,253. Before him are Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1764), Friedrich Paschen (1865), August Kundt (1839), Philipp Lahm (1983), Johannes Steinhoff (1913), and Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1808). After him are Therese Brandl (1902), Ralf Schumacher (1975), Kurt Gerron (1897), Andreas Karlstadt (1486), Johann Gottfried Walther (1684), and Barbara of Brandenburg (1464).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Eduard Rüppell ranks 45. Before him are Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767), Carl Sigismund Kunth (1788), Friedrich Parrot (1791), Carl Gustav Carus (1789), Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806), and Carl Ludwig Blume (1796). After him are Lorenz Oken (1779), Otto Brunfels (1488), Jean Cabanis (1816), Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (1811), Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725), and Jacob Christian Schäffer (1718).

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