BIOLOGIST

Ferdinand Cohn

1828 - 1898

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Ferdinand Julius Cohn (24 January 1828 – 25 June 1898) was a German biologist. He is one of the founders of modern bacteriology and microbiology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ferdinand Cohn is the 118th most popular biologist (down from 71st in 2019), the 162nd most popular biography from Poland (down from 147th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Ferdinand Cohn ranks 118 out of 1,097. Before him are Svante Pääbo, Hermann Joseph Muller, Vladimir Vernadsky, William John Swainson, Elias Magnus Fries, and John B. Calhoun. After him are James Edward Smith, Sylvia Earle, Carl Peter Thunberg, John Hopfield, Erasmus Darwin, and Carl Nägeli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1828, Ferdinand Cohn ranks 13. Before him are Saigō Takamori, Charbel Makhlouf, Hippolyte Taine, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, and Albert Marth. After him are Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia, Albert of Saxony, Louise of the Netherlands, John Langdon Down, Joseph Swan, and Paul Gachet. Among people deceased in 1898, Ferdinand Cohn ranks 14. Before him are Johann Jakob Balmer, Syed Ahmad Khan, Ivan Shishkin, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Eugène Boudin, and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. After him are Aubrey Beardsley, Charles Garnier, Félicien Rops, Theodor Fontane, Eleanor Marx, and John Newlands.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Ferdinand Cohn ranks 162 out of 1,694. Before him are William I of Württemberg (1781), Władysław Anders (1892), Henry II the Pious (1196), Bolesław III Wrymouth (1086), Mieszko I of Poland (940), and Reinhard Selten (1930). After him are Clara Immerwahr (1870), Rochus Misch (1917), Witold Lutosławski (1913), Jarosław Kaczyński (1949), Andrzej Duda (1972), and Maria Feodorovna (1759).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Poland

Among biologists born in Poland, Ferdinand Cohn ranks 3. Before him are Günter Blobel (1936), and Georg Forster (1754). After him are Adolf Engler (1844), C. L. Gloger (1803), Johann Reinhold Forster (1729), Julius von Sachs (1832), Johannes Thiele (1860), Martin Rathke (1793), Władysław Taczanowski (1819), Gustav Radde (1831), and Michael Sela (1924).

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