GEOLOGIST

Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann

1797 - 1873

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Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann (30 May 1797 – 26 November 1873), also known as Karl Friedrich Naumann, was a German mineralogist and geologist. The crater Naumann on the Moon is named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann is the 31st most popular geologist (up from 39th in 2019), the 3,278th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,923rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann ranks 31 out of 90. Before him are William Buckland, Norman L. Bowen, John Tuzo Wilson, Alexander von Keyserling, Vladimir Obruchev, and Arthur Holmes. After him are Harry Hammond Hess, Alexander Karpinsky, Albert Heim, Maria Klenova, Ferdinand Zirkel, and Harry Rosenbusch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann ranks 54. Before him are Andrew Smith, Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, Princess Hermine of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Friedrich von Lütke, Gotthilf Hagen, and Anthony Panizzi. After him are Innocent of Alaska, Ramón Castilla, Karl Otfried Müller, Henry E. Steinway, Alexander Bestuzhev, and Johann Andreas Wagner. Among people deceased in 1873, Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann ranks 43. Before him are Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Prince August, Duke of Dalarna, Charles II, Duke of Brunswick, Auguste von Harrach, Ferdinand David, and Hermann Hankel. After him are Caterina Scarpellini, Malek Jahan Khanom, Bénédict Morel, Spyridon Trikoupis, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, and Johann Jakob Kaup.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann ranks 3,280 out of 7,253. Before him are Robert Blum (1807), Günter Wallraff (1942), August Heinrich Petermann (1822), Jacques Loeb (1859), Adelaide of Meissen (1160), and Valentin Weigel (1533). After him are Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg (1836), Prince Frederick of Württemberg (1808), Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1646), Sigmar Gabriel (1959), Lily Braun (1865), and Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1819).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among geologists born in Germany, Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann ranks 5. Before him are Alfred Wegener (1880), Friedrich Mohs (1773), Beno Gutenberg (1889), and Christian Leopold von Buch (1774). After him are Ferdinand Zirkel (1838), 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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