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Fritz Müller

1822 - 1897

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Johann Friedrich Theodor Müller (German pronunciation: [ˈjoːhan ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈteːodoːɐ̯ ˈmʏlɐ]; 31 March 1822 – 21 May 1897), better known as Fritz Müller (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈfɾits ˈmileʁ]), and also as Müller-Desterro, was a German biologist who emigrated to southern Brazil, where he lived in and near the city of Blumenau, Santa Catarina. There he studied the natural history of the Atlantic forest and was an early advocate of Darwinism. Müllerian mimicry is named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fritz Müller is the 362nd most popular biologist (down from 352nd in 2019), the 2,360th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,686th in 2019) and the 67th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Fritz Müller ranks 362 out of 1,097. Before him are Theodore Gill, Henrietta Lacks, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, Friedrich Loeffler, Eugenius Warming, and Humberto Maturana. After him are Antoine Béchamp, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Pierre Edmond Boissier, Jean René Constant Quoy, Olof Swartz, and Joel Asaph Allen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Fritz Müller ranks 37. Before him are Charles Friedel, Joachim Raff, Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Jacob Moleschott, Matthew Arnold, Karamchand Gandhi, Nikolay Danilevsky, Princess Januária of Brazil, and Princess Augusta Reuss of Köstritz. Among people deceased in 1897, Fritz Müller ranks 32. Before him are Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, Léon Boëllmann, Stanislas de Guaita, Alexei Savrasov, Henry George, and Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale. After him are Henri Meilhac, Viktor Meyer, Effie Gray, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke, Antonio Bazzini, and Khurshidbanu Natavan.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Fritz Müller ranks 2,361 out of 7,253. Before him are Otto Wöhler (1894), Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (1598), Horst-Dieter Höttges (1943), Floris III, Count of Holland (1141), Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony (1796), and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia (1746). After him are August Hermann Francke (1663), Karl Frenzel (1911), John Sutter (1803), Magdalene of Bavaria (1587), Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke (1889), and Sigismund, Duke of Bavaria (1439).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Fritz Müller ranks 67. Before him are Valerius Cordus (1515), Wilhelm Peters (1815), Friedrich Boie (1789), Moritz Wagner (1813), Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823), and Friedrich Loeffler (1852). After him are Otto Kuntze (1843), August Batsch (1761), Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743), Johann Georg Wagler (1800), Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1916), and Theodor Boveri (1862).

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