GEOLOGIST

Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

1902 - 1982

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Gustav Heinrich Ralph (often cited as G. H. R.) von Koenigswald (13 November 1902 – 10 July 1982) was a German-Dutch paleontologist and geologist who conducted research on hominins, including Homo erectus. His discoveries and studies of hominid fossils in Java and his studies of other important fossils of south-eastern Asia firmly established his reputation as one of the leading figures of 20th-century paleo-anthropology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald is the 42nd most popular geologist (up from 45th in 2019), the 3,880th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,245th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald ranks 42 out of 90. Before him are Ferdinand Zirkel, Harry Rosenbusch, Léon Teisserenc de Bort, Édouard Lartet, Barnum Brown, and Adolphe d'Archiac. After him are Joachim Barrande, Hiroo Kanamori, Lawrence Lambe, Alfred Lacroix, Henryk Arctowski, and Carl Friedrich Schmidt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald ranks 190. Before him are Toivo Loukola, Kim Sowol, Jack Sharkey, Dirk Brouwer, George Kingsley Zipf, and Jan Kiepura. After him are Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Ida Siekmann, Veniamin Kaverin, Ansel Adams, Lon L. Fuller, and Max Abegglen. Among people deceased in 1982, Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald ranks 156. Before him are Johan Wilhelm Rangell, Juhan Aavik, Willy Busch, Adoniran Barbosa, Vladimir Smirnov, and Konrad Wolf. After him are Dominique Dunne, Seraphim Rose, Ed Hamm, Ludwig Bieberbach, Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, and Gábor Szabó.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald ranks 3,882 out of 7,253. Before him are Eberhard Vogel (1943), Udo Voigt (1952), Konrad Wolf (1925), Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal (1810), Michael Gielen (1927), and Johann Julius Walbaum (1724). After him are Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1655), Wolfgang Becker (1954), Princess Amalie of Saxony (1794), Erich Marcks (1891), Per Mertesacker (1984), and Julian Draxler (1993).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among geologists born in Germany, Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald ranks 8. Before him are Friedrich Mohs (1773), Beno Gutenberg (1889), Christian Leopold von Buch (1774), Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann (1797), Ferdinand Zirkel (1838), and Harry Rosenbusch (1836). After him are Julius von Haast (1822), Ferdinand von Hochstetter (1829), Oskar Lenz (1848), and Rudolf Geiger (1894).

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