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Hans Driesch

1867 - 1941

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Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch (28 October 1867 – 17 April 1941) was a German biologist and philosopher from Bad Kreuznach. He is most noted for his early experimental work in embryology and for his neo-vitalist philosophy of entelechy. He has also been credited with performing the first artificial 'cloning' of an animal in the 1880s, although this claim is dependent on how one defines cloning. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Driesch is the 206th most popular biologist (up from 214th in 2019), the 1,276th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,692nd in 2019) and the 27th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Hans Driesch ranks 206 out of 1,097. Before him are Joseph Banks, Har Gobind Khorana, César Milstein, Ludwig Reichenbach, Wilhelm Johannsen, and George C. Williams. After him are George Wald, William Carey, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Olaus Rudbeck, Gregory Goodwin Pincus, and Nikolay Pirogov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Hans Driesch ranks 43. Before him are Joseph Maria Olbrich, Edward B. Titchener, Eugen Sandow, Antti Aarne, Martin Kutta, and Charles Fabry. After him are Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Adam Stefan Sapieha, Wilhelm Groener, Madam C. J. Walker, Charles Koechlin, and Albert, 8th Prince of Thurn and Taxis. Among people deceased in 1941, Hans Driesch ranks 47. Before him are Christian Rakovsky, Mikhail Kirponos, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Sisowath Monivong, Tullio Levi-Civita, and Benjamin Lee Whorf. After him are Paul-Jacques Curie, Dmitry Pavlov, Franz Gürtner, Gottfried Feder, Maria Spiridonova, and Frederick Griffith.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Driesch ranks 1,276 out of 7,253. Before him are Henry the Middle, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1468), Johann van Beethoven (1740), Clemens August Graf von Galen (1878), Christian Wulff (1959), Gertrude of Merania (1185), and Horst Schumann (1906). After him are Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg (1484), Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim (1594), Ernst Troeltsch (1865), Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel (1627), Lorenz von Stein (1815), and Rupert of Salzburg (650).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Hans Driesch ranks 27. Before him are Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775), Julius Richard Petri (1852), Walther Flemming (1843), Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765), Hermann Schlegel (1804), and Ludwig Reichenbach (1793). After him are Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757), Bert Sakmann (1942), Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794), August Grisebach (1814), Albert Günther (1830), and Theodor Escherich (1857).

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