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Johann Friedrich Meckel

1781 - 1833

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Johann Friedrich Meckel (17 October 1781 – 31 October 1833), often referred to as Johann Friedrich Meckel, the Younger, was a German anatomist born in Halle. He worked as a professor of anatomy, pathology and zoology at the University of Halle, Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Friedrich Meckel is the 591st most popular biologist (down from 542nd in 2019), the 3,686th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,806th in 2019) and the 120th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Friedrich Meckel ranks 591 out of 1,097. Before him are Mary Agnes Chase, Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, Jean Baptiste Boisduval, William Speirs Bruce, Nathaniel Lord Britton, and Georg Ossian Sars. After him are Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau, Joseph Leidy, Charles De Geer, Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Tsuneko Okazaki, and John Murray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1781, Johann Friedrich Meckel ranks 32. Before him are Adolphe Marbot, Valentín Gómez Farías, Swaminarayan, Christian von Steven, George Dawe, and Henri Cassini. After him are José de Madrazo y Agudo, William John Burchell, Joseph Johann von Littrow, Friedrich von Berchtold, Joaquín Suárez, and Andrés Narvarte. Among people deceased in 1833, Johann Friedrich Meckel ranks 32. Before him are Ivan Martinov, Nannette Streicher, Yagan, Fausto Elhuyar, Gottlob Ernst Schulze, and Gertrud Elisabeth Mara. After him are Banastre Tarleton, William Thompson, Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, Joshua Brookes, and Hannah More.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Meckel ranks 3,688 out of 7,253. Before him are Konrad von Erlichshausen (1390), Pavle Jurišić Šturm (1848), Woldemar Voigt (1850), Princess Sophie Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1737), Richard Röstel (1872), and Ernst Hoppenberg (1878). After him are Philip II, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels (1541), Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680), Johann Andreas Wagner (1797), Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1581), Siegfried Kasche (1903), and Thorsten Fink (1967).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Meckel ranks 120. Before him are Karl Friedrich von Gaertner (1772), Georg von Langsdorff (1774), August W. Eichler (1839), Rudolf Schlechter (1872), Johann Jakob Kaup (1803), and Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (1817). After him are Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper (1742), Carl Bernhard von Trinius (1778), Albrecht Wilhelm Roth (1757), Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg (1766), Carl Bolle (1821), and Carl Friedrich von Ledebour (1786).

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