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Johann Friedrich Gmelin

1748 - 1804

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Johann Friedrich Gmelin (8 August 1748 – 1 November 1804) was a German naturalist, chemist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Friedrich Gmelin is the 137th most popular biologist (down from 118th in 2019), the 864th most popular biography from Germany (up from 945th in 2019) and the 17th most popular German Biologist.

Johann Friedrich Gmelin was a German naturalist and chemist who is most famous for his work in the field of botany.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Friedrich Gmelin ranks 137 out of 1,097. Before him are Sydney Brenner, John Franklin Enders, Jan Swammerdam, William Jackson Hooker, Lynn Margulis, and Gaspard Bauhin. After him are Oliver Smithies, Martin Evans, Gerald Edelman, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, Edward B. Lewis, and Aimé Bonpland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1748, Johann Friedrich Gmelin ranks 12. Before him are Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Olympe de Gouges, Claude Louis Berthollet, Adam Weishaupt, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, and William V, Prince of Orange. After him are Adamantios Korais, Anders Sparrman, Christian Gottlob Neefe, Timur Shah Durrani, Benedict Joseph Labre, and John Marshall. Among people deceased in 1804, Johann Friedrich Gmelin ranks 9. Before him are Alexander Hamilton, Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, Jacques Necker, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, Pierre Méchain, and Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien. After him are Wolfgang von Kempelen, Jean-Charles Pichegru, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Jazzar Pasha, Princess Carolina of Parma, and Antoine Baumé.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Gmelin ranks 864 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1800), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925), Max Beckmann (1884), Otto II, Duke of Bavaria (1206), Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1823), and Jack Steinberger (1921). After him are Theodor Billroth (1829), Emmy Göring (1893), Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1622), Franz Joseph Gall (1758), Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876), and Max Liebermann (1847).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Gmelin ranks 17. Before him are Ernst Mayr (1904), Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942), Erwin Neher (1944), Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795), Georges J. F. Köhler (1946), and Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771). After him are Bernard Katz (1911), Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709), Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739), Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775), Julius Richard Petri (1852), and Walther Flemming (1843).

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