BIOLOGIST

Georg Eberhard Rumphius

1627 - 1702

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Georg Eberhard Rumphius (originally: Rumpf; baptized c. 1 November 1627 – 15 June 1702) was a German-born botanist employed by the Dutch East India Company in what is now eastern Indonesia, and is best known for his work Herbarium Amboinense produced in the face of severe personal tragedies, including the death of his wife and a daughter in an earthquake, going blind from glaucoma, loss of his library and manuscripts in major fire, and losing early copies of his book when the ship carrying it was sunk. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georg Eberhard Rumphius is the 399th most popular biologist (up from 407th in 2019), the 2,584th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,075th in 2019) and the 74th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Georg Eberhard Rumphius ranks 399 out of 1,097. Before him are William Elford Leach, James Bond, Alexander von Nordmann, Edwin Klebs, Johan Ernst Gunnerus, and Theodor Boveri. After him are Ludwik Fleck, Karl Koch, Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, Harold E. Varmus, Lev Berg, and Heinrich Anton de Bary.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1627, Georg Eberhard Rumphius ranks 16. Before him are Willem van Aelst, Petro Doroshenko, Countess Louise Henriette of Nassau, Murad Giray, Johann Caspar Kerll, and John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau. After him are Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, John Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Rudolph Augustus, Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Jan de Bray, and Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Among people deceased in 1702, Georg Eberhard Rumphius ranks 8. Before him are Zeb-un-Nissa, Frederick IV, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Philippe, Chevalier de Lorraine, Jean Bart, Olaus Rudbeck, and Amcazade Köprülü Hüseyin Pasha. After him are John Benbow, and Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georg Eberhard Rumphius ranks 2,585 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans Hartwig von Beseler (1850), Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (1846), John II, Count Palatine of Simmern (1492), Karl Ernst (1904), Bernhard Förster (1843), and Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria (1937). After him are Karl Gutzkow (1811), Johann Friedrich Agricola (1720), William Louis, Duke of Württemberg (1647), Princess Maria Ludwiga Theresia of Bavaria (1872), Karl Koch (1809), and Louis of Nassau (1538).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Georg Eberhard Rumphius ranks 74. Before 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). After him are Karl Koch (1809), Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831), Georg August Goldfuss (1782), Alexander Braun (1805), Heinrich Boie (1794), and Carl Hagenbeck (1844).

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