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Georgius Agricola

1494 - 1555

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Georgius Agricola (; born Georg Bauer; 24 March 1494 – 21 November 1555) was a German Humanist scholar, mineralogist and metallurgist. Born in the small town of Glauchau, in the Electorate of Saxony of the Holy Roman Empire, he was broadly educated, but took a particular interest in the mining and refining of metals. He was the first to drop the Arabic definite article al-, exclusively writing chymia and chymista in describing activity that we today would characterize as chemical or alchemical, giving chemistry its modern name. For his groundbreaking work De Natura Fossilium published in 1546, he is generally referred to as the father of mineralogy and the founder of geology as a scientific discipline. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georgius Agricola is the 23rd most popular physician (down from 22nd in 2019), the 188th most popular biography from Germany (up from 237th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Physician.

Georgius Agricola is most famous for his book "De Re Metallica" which is a 1556 text on mining and metallurgy.

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Among physicians, Georgius Agricola ranks 23 out of 726. Before him are Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi, Alan Hodgkin, Pedanius Dioscorides, Nestorius, Róbert Bárány, and Cesare Lombroso. After him are Cyril of Alexandria, Michael Servetus, Allvar Gullstrand, Al-Zahrawi, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, and John Snow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1494, Georgius Agricola ranks 5. Before him are Suleiman the Magnificent, Francis I of France, François Rabelais, and Fuzûlî. After him are Pontormo, Bona Sforza, Rosso Fiorentino, Jean Parisot de Valette, Leo Africanus, Lucas van Leyden, and Antoinette de Bourbon. Among people deceased in 1555, Georgius Agricola ranks 4. Before him are Joanna of Castile, Pope Julius III, and Pope Marcellus II. After him are Henry II of Navarre, Kara Ahmed Pasha, Jacob Clemens non Papa, Elizabeth of Denmark, Electress of Brandenburg, Pedro Mascarenhas, Gemma Frisius, Oronce Finé, and Luís of Portugal, Duke of Beja.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georgius Agricola ranks 188 out of 7,253. Before him are Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1175), Baron Munchausen (1720), Conrad III of Germany (1093), Nelly Sachs (1891), Sophia of Prussia (1870), and Richard Willstätter (1872). After him are Hermann von Helmholtz (1821), Paul Heyse (1830), Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden (1710), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900), Friedrich Schlegel (1772), and Leopold Mozart (1719).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Georgius Agricola ranks 3. Before him are Josef Mengele (1911), and Robert Koch (1843). After him are Alois Alzheimer (1864), Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883), Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884), Emil Kraepelin (1856), Samuel Hahnemann (1755), Gerhard Domagk (1895), Otto Loewi (1873), Theodor Morell (1886), and Werner Forssmann (1904).

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