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Johann Wilhelm Meigen

1764 - 1845

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Johann Wilhelm Meigen (3 May 1764 – 11 July 1845) was a German entomologist famous for his pioneering work on Diptera. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Johann Wilhelm Meigen is the 935th most popular biologist (down from 932nd in 2024), the 5,005th most popular biography from Germany (up from 5,243rd in 2019) and the 182nd most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Wilhelm Meigen ranks 935 out of 1,097. Before him are Ken Alibek, Johann Christoph Wendland, Pierre Chambon, William Murrill, Joanne Chory, and Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen. After him are Norman I. Platnick, Philipp Christoph Zeller, Alice Catherine Evans, George Edwards, Shi Zhengli, and Walter Buller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1764, Johann Wilhelm Meigen ranks 32. Before him are Sidney Smith, Henriette Herz, Josef Abel, Edward Livingston, John Mawe, and Carl Fredrik Fallén. After him are Benjamin Henry Latrobe, William Pinkney, and Mary Lamb. Among people deceased in 1845, Johann Wilhelm Meigen ranks 40. Before him are Elizabeth Fry, Gregor MacGregor, Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar, Karl Julius Perleb, Josef Danhauser, and Friedrich Ludwig Persius. After him are János Batsányi, Cassandra Austen, Thomas Phillips, Thomas Hood, Joseph Story, and Gabriel Moore.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Wilhelm Meigen ranks 5,008 out of 7,253. Before him are Kurt Biedenkopf (1930), Georg Jacoby (1882), Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (1930), Brigitte Reimann (1933), Gabriele Kuby (1944), and Timo Glock (1982). After him are Liselott Linsenhoff (1927), Andreas von Ettingshausen (1796), Philipp Christoph Zeller (1808), Andy Bechtolsheim (1955), Siegbert Horn (1950), and Joseph Rosemeyer (1872).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Johann Wilhelm Meigen ranks 182. Before him are Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus (1835), Jakob Emanuel Lange (1864), Johann August Ephraim Goeze (1731), Otto Bütschli (1848), Carl H. Eigenmann (1863), and Johann Christoph Wendland (1755). After him are Philipp Christoph Zeller (1808), Curt Backeberg (1894), Tilly Edinger (1897), Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727), Ludwig Carl Christian Koch (1825), and Heinrich Kuhl (1797).

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