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Johann Jakob Heckel

1790 - 1857

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Johann Jakob Heckel (23 January 1790 – 1 March 1857) was an Austrian taxidermist, zoologist, and ichthyologist from Mannheim in the Electoral Palatinate. He worked at the Royal natural history cabinet in Vienna which later became the Austrian Museum of Natural History. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Jakob Heckel is the 512th most popular biologist (down from 412th in 2019), the 3,234th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,092nd in 2019) and the 98th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Jakob Heckel ranks 512 out of 1,097. Before him are Pehr Kalm, Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle, Christian von Steven, Robert H. MacArthur, Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, and Carl Axel Magnus Lindman. After him are Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, Aaron Aaronsohn, Alec Jeffreys, Louisa Bolus, François Marie Daudin, and Johan Andreas Murray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1790, Johann Jakob Heckel ranks 31. Before him are Ferdinand Raimund, Simon von Stampfer, Letitia Christian Tyler, Juan Álvarez, Manuel Blanco Encalada, and William Smith. After him are Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger, John Cockerill, James Pradier, Juan Lindo, Ghezo, and Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella. Among people deceased in 1857, Johann Jakob Heckel ranks 40. Before him are Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg, Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria of Braganza, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, William Brown, Agustina de Aragón, and Nasir-ud-Daulah. After him are William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, Manuel José Quintana, Carl Ludwig Koch, Johann Friedrich Naumann, Abraham Jacob van der Aa, and Wei Yuan.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Jakob Heckel ranks 3,236 out of 7,253. Before him are Rainald of Dassel (1114), Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria (1468), Grete Stern (1904), Christian Cannabich (1731), John Casimir, Duke of Saxe-Coburg (1564), and Meryem Uzerli (1983). After him are Alexander Zverev (1997), Ernst-Günther Baade (1897), Walter Krüger (1892), Helmut Kunz (1910), Clara Westhoff (1878), and Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1687).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Johann Jakob Heckel ranks 98. Before him are Otto Wilhelm Thomé (1840), Lorenz Heister (1683), Carl Chun (1852), Salomon Müller (1804), Paul Friedrich August Ascherson (1834), and Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809). After him are Jacques Loeb (1859), Eduard August von Regel (1815), Princess Therese of Bavaria (1850), Ernst Schäfer (1910), Johann Jakob Bernhardi (1774), and Eugen Fischer (1874).

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