GEOLOGIST

Ferdinand Zirkel

1838 - 1912

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Prof Ferdinand Zirkel FRS(For) HFRSE (20 May 1838 – 11 June 1912) was a German geologist and petrographer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ferdinand Zirkel is the 36th most popular geologist (up from 53rd in 2019), the 3,693rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,497th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Ferdinand Zirkel ranks 36 out of 90. Before him are Arthur Holmes, Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, Harry Hammond Hess, Alexander Karpinsky, Albert Heim, and Maria Klenova. After him are Harry Rosenbusch, Léon Teisserenc de Bort, Édouard Lartet, Barnum Brown, Adolphe d'Archiac, and Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Ferdinand Zirkel ranks 70. Before him are Keshub Chandra Sen, Thomas Blake Glover, Édouard Colonne, Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso, Marin Drinov, and Jules Méline. After him are Karl Davydov, Yikuang, Emil Rathenau, Toyohara Chikanobu, John Hay, and James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce. Among people deceased in 1912, Ferdinand Zirkel ranks 83. Before him are Anna Filosofova, Dmitry Milyutin, Ida Straus, Bernardino Caballero, Subh-i-Azal, and Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo. After him are Siri von Essen, Richard Norman Shaw, Lewis Boss, Eduardo López de Romaña, Toyohara Chikanobu, and Tony Robert-Fleury.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ferdinand Zirkel ranks 3,695 out of 7,253. Before him are Philip II, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels (1541), Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680), Johann Andreas Wagner (1797), Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1581), Siegfried Kasche (1903), and Thorsten Fink (1967). After him are Princess Elisabeth Anna of Prussia (1857), Franz Tunder (1614), Marianne Werner (1924), Karl Hohmann (1908), Elia Levita (1469), and Ludwig Renn (1889).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among geologists born in Germany, Ferdinand Zirkel ranks 6. Before him are Alfred Wegener (1880), Friedrich Mohs (1773), Beno Gutenberg (1889), Christian Leopold von Buch (1774), and Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann (1797). After him are 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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