BIOLOGIST

Georg August Goldfuss

1782 - 1848

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Georg August Goldfuß (18 April 1782 – 2 October 1848) was a German palaeontologist, zoologist and botanist. He became a professor of zoology at the University of Erlangen and later at the University of Bonn. He coined the terms "protozoa" and "pelecypoda". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georg August Goldfuss is the 407th most popular biologist (up from 450th in 2019), the 2,619th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,366th in 2019) and the 77th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Georg August Goldfuss ranks 407 out of 1,097. Before him are Karl Koch, Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, Harold E. Varmus, Lev Berg, Heinrich Anton de Bary, and June Almeida. After him are Auguste Chevalier, Philibert Commerson, Achille Valenciennes, Pierre Magnol, Eugène Simon, and Arthur Tansley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1782, Georg August Goldfuss ranks 25. Before him are John C. Calhoun, Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov, Julie Guicciardi, Marcellin Marbot, Faustin Soulouque, and Esaias Tegnér. After him are Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow, Robert Morrison, Conrad Graf, Princess Maria Augusta of Saxony, Pierre Berthier, and F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich. Among people deceased in 1848, Georg August Goldfuss ranks 29. Before him are John Jacob Astor, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este, Frederick Marryat, Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom, and Horace Wells. After him are Robert Darwin, Joseph Görres, Christen Købke, Jean-Baptiste Debret, Duchess Amelia of Württemberg, and Keisai Eisen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georg August Goldfuss ranks 2,620 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl Hein (1908), Alexander Gode (1906), Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke (1835), Princess Dorothea Wilhelmine of Saxe-Zeitz (1691), J. Cole (1985), and Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch (1888). After him are Götz George (1938), Johann von Staupitz (1465), Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1851), Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort (1517), Caesarius of Heisterbach (1180), and Holger Osieck (1948).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Georg August Goldfuss ranks 77. Before him are Johann Georg Wagler (1800), Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1916), Theodor Boveri (1862), Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1627), Karl Koch (1809), and Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831). After him are Alexander Braun (1805), Heinrich Boie (1794), Carl Hagenbeck (1844), Adolf Mayer (1843), Joseph Gaertner (1732), and Blasius Merrem (1761).

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