BIOLOGIST

Jean Cabanis

1816 - 1906

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Jean Louis Cabanis (8 March 1816 – 20 February 1906) was a German ornithologist. He worked at the bird collections of the Natural History Museum in Berlin becoming its first curator of birds in 1850. He founded the Journal für Ornithologie in 1853. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Cabanis is the 293rd most popular biologist (up from 399th in 2019), the 1,996th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,012th in 2019) and the 48th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jean Cabanis ranks 293 out of 1,097Before him are Michael Rosbash, Michael W. Young, Odoardo Beccari, Johann Jakob von Tschudi, Lorenz Oken, and Otto Brunfels. After him are Armen Takhtajan, Juliane Koepcke, Peter Medawar, George Bentham, Wilbur Scoville, and Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1816, Jean Cabanis ranks 15Before him are Paul Reuter, Wazir Akbar Khan, Charles-Eugène Delaunay, Carl Ludwig, Franz Sacher, and 10th Dalai Lama. After him are William Gull, Gustav Freytag, Antoine Béchamp, Antoine François Marmontel, Rudolf Wolf, and Jan Arnošt Smoler. Among people deceased in 1906, Jean Cabanis ranks 22Before him are Bartolomé Mitre, Eugène Carrière, Jules Breton, Princess Mathilde of Bavaria, Joseph Monier, and Mihály Zichy. After him are Paul Drude, Elizabeth of the Trinity, Étienne Carjat, Prince Albert of Prussia, Maria Beatrix of Austria-Este, and Giuseppe Giacosa.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jean Cabanis ranks 1,997 out of 7,253Before him are Moritz von Jacobi (1801), Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (1891), Otto Brunfels (1488), Wolfgang Sawallisch (1923), Gustav Nachtigal (1834), and Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769). After him are Friedrich Naumann (1860), Oswald Boelcke (1891), Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark (1808), Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia (1200), Wilhelm Ackermann (1896), and Isidor Straus (1845).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Jean Cabanis ranks 48Before him are Carl Gustav Carus (1789), Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806), Carl Ludwig Blume (1796), Eduard Rüppell (1794), Lorenz Oken (1779), and Otto Brunfels (1488). After him are Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (1811), Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725), Jacob Christian Schäffer (1718), Hieronymus Bock (1498), Karl Alfred von Zittel (1839), and Karl Gegenbaur (1826).