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Friedrich Kasimir Medikus

1736 - 1808

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Friedrich Kasimir Medikus (or Friedrich Casimir Medicus; 6 January 1738 – 8 July 1808) was a German physician and botanist. He was born at Grumbach and became director of the University of Mannheim (Theodoro Palatinae Mannheim) and curator of the botanical garden at Mannheim. He encouraged the cultivation of locust trees (Robinia) in Europe. The genus Medicusia was named after him by Conrad Moench (now considered synonymous with Picris). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Kasimir Medikus is the 268th most popular physician (up from 329th in 2019), the 1,863rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,539th in 2019) and the 40th most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus ranks 268 out of 726. Before him are Cicely Saunders, Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, François Magendie, Caspar Friedrich Wolff, Clarke Abel, and Bernard Kouchner. After him are Pierre Paul Émile Roux, Henry Gray, Hieronymus Fabricius, Thomas Addison, John Harvey Kellogg, and Johann Conrad Dippel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1736, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus ranks 13. Before him are James Macpherson, Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Rudolf Erich Raspe, Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé, and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. After him are Anton Graff, Edward Waring, Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens, Infanta Maria Ana Francisca of Portugal, and Patrick Henry. Among people deceased in 1808, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus ranks 12. Before him are Johan Christian Fabricius, Hubert Robert, Carl Gotthard Langhans, Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov, Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, and Princess Marie of Baden. After him are Paul Wranitzky, Ove Høegh-Guldberg, Gaétan Vestris, Alemdar Mustafa Pasha, Princess Wilhelmina of Hesse-Kassel, and Étienne Pierre Ventenat.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus ranks 1,863 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Feodora of Leiningen (1807), Ernest Mandel (1923), Carl Ludvig Engel (1778), Ralf Rangnick (1958), Charles III William, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1679), and Friedrich Rückert (1788). After him are Joseph Martin Kraus (1756), Pierre Littbarski (1960), Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (1568), Sahra Wagenknecht (1969), Regino of Prüm (842), and Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria (1752).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus ranks 40. Before him are Ernst-Günther Schenck (1904), Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818), Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (1766), Leonhart Fuchs (1501), Karl Adolph von Basedow (1799), and Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1735). After him are Johann Conrad Dippel (1673), Eduard Wirths (1909), August Oetker (1862), Hans Berger (1873), Ernst Gräfenberg (1881), and Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723).

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