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Heinrich von Kittlitz

1799 - 1874

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Friedrich Heinrich, Freiherr von Kittlitz (16 February 1799 – 10 April 1874) was a Prussian artist, naval officer, explorer and naturalist. He was a descendant of a family of old Prussian nobility ("Freiherr" meaning "independent lord" - ranking with a baron). He collected specimens and made illustrations on major expeditions and wrote a few books on his travels. Several species were described on the basis of specimens collected by him and a few are named after him including Kittlitz's plover. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich von Kittlitz is the 699th most popular biologist (down from 602nd in 2019), the 864th most popular biography from Poland (down from 858th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Polish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Heinrich von Kittlitz ranks 699 out of 1,097. Before him are Anton Reichenow, Auguste Duméril, Elisabeth Christina von Linné, William Withering, Albert Bernhard Frank, and Michael Sela. After him are Abu al-Abbas al-Nabati, Pier Andrea Saccardo, Conrad Moench, N. E. Brown, Johann Georg Christian Lehmann, and Rodolfo Amando Philippi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Heinrich von Kittlitz ranks 44. Before him are Imre Frivaldszky, Alexander Petrov, Joachim Barrande, Petrache Poenaru, Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau, and Robert von Mohl. After him are Eliza Acton, Fyodor Bruni, David Don, Heinrich von Gagern, Nathaniel Palmer, and Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville. Among people deceased in 1874, Heinrich von Kittlitz ranks 43. Before him are Niccolò Tommaseo, Fritz Reuter, Vilém Blodek, Jules Janin, Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt, and Jean Cruveilhier. After him are Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt, Victor Baltard, Robert Edmond Grant, John Phillips, Richard Thomas Lowe, and Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Heinrich von Kittlitz ranks 864 out of 1,694. Before him are Zacharias Ursinus (1534), Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn (1812), Michael Sela (1924), Agnieszka Osiecka (1936), Władysław Ślewiński (1856), and Zofia Zamenhof (1889). After him are Heinrich von Stephan (1831), Jan Śniadecki (1756), Boris Kaufman (1906), Broncia Koller-Pinell (1863), Leopold von Wiese (1876), and Aleksander Skrzyński (1882).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Poland

Among biologists born in Poland, Heinrich von Kittlitz ranks 13. Before him are Julius von Sachs (1832), Johannes Thiele (1860), Martin Rathke (1793), Władysław Taczanowski (1819), Gustav Radde (1831), and Michael Sela (1924). After him are Wilhelm Hemprich (1796), Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925), Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884), Heinrich Göppert (1800), Aharon Katzir (1914), and Jan Sztolcman (1854).

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