BIOLOGIST

Hermann Burmeister

1807 - 1892

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Karl Hermann Konrad Burmeister (also known as Carlos Germán Conrado Burmeister) (15 January 1807 – 2 May 1892) was a German Argentine zoologist, entomologist, herpetologist, botanist, and coleopterologist. He served as a professor at the University of Halle, headed the museum there and published the Handbuch der Entomologie (1832–1855) before moving to Argentina where he worked until his death. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Burmeister is the 330th most popular biologist (up from 332nd in 2019), the 2,190th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,570th in 2019) and the 59th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Hermann Burmeister ranks 330 out of 1,097. Before him are Erik Acharius, David Baltimore, Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck, Carol W. Greider, Johann Reinhold Forster, and Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz. After him are Charles M. Rice, Patrick Geddes, Jérôme Lejeune, Edward Blyth, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, and Otto Friedrich Müller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1807, Hermann Burmeister ranks 19. Before him are Charles Francis Adams Sr., Princess Feodora of Leiningen, Théophile-Jules Pelouze, Princess Cecilia of Sweden, Alfred Vail, and Princess Charlotte of Württemberg. After him are Aloysius Bertrand, Joseph E. Johnston, Amir Kabir, Jónas Hallgrímsson, Abdülkerim Nadir Pasha, and Napoleon Orda. Among people deceased in 1892, Hermann Burmeister ranks 34. Before him are Jules Perrot, Emin Pasha, Ravachol, Yoshitoshi, Peter Nicolai Arbo, and Antonio de Torres Jurado. After him are Hervé, Ernest Guiraud, Süleyman Hüsnü Pasha, Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria, Charles Lavigerie, and Afanasy Fet.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Burmeister ranks 2,191 out of 7,253. Before him are Heinrich von Brentano (1904), Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918), Heinrich von Plauen (1370), Henrich Focke (1890), Joachim Neander (1650), and Albert Bierstadt (1830). After him are Hans Loritz (1895), Petra Kelly (1947), Conradin Kreutzer (1780), Konrad von Feuchtwangen (1230), Rudolph Goclenius (1547), and Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken (1746).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Hermann Burmeister ranks 59. Before him are Karl Alfred von Zittel (1839), Karl Gegenbaur (1826), Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (1744), Christian Ludwig Brehm (1787), Willi Hennig (1913), and Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776). After him are Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809), Valerius Cordus (1515), Wilhelm Peters (1815), Friedrich Boie (1789), Moritz Wagner (1813), and Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823).

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