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Georg Joseph Kamel

1661 - 1706

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Georg Joseph Kamel (German: [ˈkaːml̩]; Latin: Georgius Josephus Camellus; Czech: Jiří Josef Kamel; Spanish: Jorge Camel; 12 April 1661 – 2 May 1706) was a Jesuit missionary, pharmacist and naturalist known for producing the first comprehensive accounts of Philippine flora and fauna and for introducing Philippine nature to the European learned world. A number of Kamel's treatises were published in the Philosophical Transactions, while his descriptions of Philippine flora appeared as an appendix to the third volume of John Ray's Historia Plantarum. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georg Joseph Kamel is the 374th most popular biologist (down from 368th in 2019), the 285th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 331st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Czech Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Georg Joseph Kamel ranks 374 out of 1,097. Before him are Joel Asaph Allen, Charles Plumier, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Otto Kuntze, August Batsch, and David Douglas. After him are Frank Chapman, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, Nikolai Severtzov, John Maynard Smith, Samuel Frederick Gray, and Matt Ridley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1661, Georg Joseph Kamel ranks 13. Before him are Marie Angélique de Scorailles, Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine, Antonio I, Prince of Monaco, Christopher Polhem, Princess Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach, and Louis Armand I, Prince of Conti. After him are Vladimir Atlasov, Fyodor Apraksin, Giacomo Antonio Perti, Charles Rollin, Antoine Coypel, and Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg. Among people deceased in 1706, Georg Joseph Kamel ranks 5. Before him are Johann Pachelbel, Pierre Bayle, Peter II of Portugal, and 6th Dalai Lama. After him are Arsenije III Čarnojević, Rahman Baba, Kimpa Vita, Andreas Werckmeister, Bernhard I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, John Evelyn, and Fyodor Alexeyevich Golovin.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Georg Joseph Kamel ranks 285 out of 1,200. Before him are Rudolf Serkin (1903), Conrad II, Duke of Bohemia (1136), Svatopluk, Duke of Bohemia (1100), Lubomír Štrougal (1924), František Brixi (1732), and Václav Vorlíček (1930). After him are Vladislaus III, Duke of Bohemia (1160), Jan Saudek (1935), Vladivoj, Duke of Bohemia (981), Max Dvořák (1874), Emil Orlík (1870), and Elisabeth of Bohemia (1358).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Czechia

Among biologists born in Czechia, Georg Joseph Kamel ranks 4. Before him are Gregor Mendel (1822), Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787), and Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1794). After him are Carl Borivoj Presl (1794), Rudolf Weigl (1883), Jan Svatopluk Presl (1791), Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (1761), August von Pelzeln (1825), Ferdinand Albin Pax (1858), Franz Xaver Fieber (1807), and Friedrich Reinitzer (1857).

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