BIOLOGIST

Johann Jakob Kaup

1803 - 1873

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Johann Jakob von Kaup (10 April 1803 – 4 July 1873) was a German naturalist. A proponent of natural philosophy, he believed in an innate mathematical order in nature and he attempted biological classifications based on the Quinarian system. Kaup is also known for having coined popular prehistoric taxa like Pterosauria, Machairodus, Deinotherium, Dorcatherium, and Chalicotherium. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Jakob Kaup is the 581st most popular biologist (up from 694th in 2019), the 3,619th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,467th in 2019) and the 118th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Jakob Kaup ranks 581 out of 1,097. Before him are August W. Eichler, Charles Antoine Lemaire, John Gilbert Baker, Rudolf Schlechter, Augustin Saint-Hilaire, and Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás. After him are Frederick DuCane Godman, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, Philip Henry Gosse, Mary Agnes Chase, Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, and Jean Baptiste Boisduval.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Johann Jakob Kaup ranks 51. Before him are Albert Sidney Johnston, Ludwig Richter, Sarah Childress Polk, Alexander Dukhnovych, Albert Küchler, and James Challis. After him are Juan Almonte, Bernardo Berro, Joseph Whitworth, Johann Carl Fuhlrott, Martinus Rørbye, and Dimitrios Voulgaris. Among people deceased in 1873, Johann Jakob Kaup ranks 49. Before him are Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, Caterina Scarpellini, Malek Jahan Khanom, Bénédict Morel, Spyridon Trikoupis, and Prince Adalbert of Prussia. After him are Louis Le Chatelier, Auguste Couder, Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Odilon Barrot, and Paweł Strzelecki.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Jakob Kaup ranks 3,621 out of 7,253. Before him are Heinz Kwiatkowski (1926), Henry, Duke of Saxe-Römhild (1650), Julius Döpfner (1913), Gerald Götting (1923), Hans Christian Blech (1915), and Frederick VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1769). After him are Edgar Ende (1901), Emilie of Saxony (1516), Ubbo Emmius (1547), Conrad of Urach (1170), William Christoph, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1625), and Kevin-Prince Boateng (1987).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Johann Jakob Kaup ranks 118. Before him are Alwin Berger (1871), Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (1798), Karl Friedrich von Gaertner (1772), Georg von Langsdorff (1774), August W. Eichler (1839), and Rudolf Schlechter (1872). After him are Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (1817), Johann Friedrich Meckel (1781), Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper (1742), Carl Bernhard von Trinius (1778), Albrecht Wilhelm Roth (1757), and Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg (1766).

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