BIOLOGIST

Johannes Schmidt

1877 - 1933

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Ernst Johannes Schmidt (2 January 1877 – 21 February 1933) was a Danish biologist credited with discovering in 1920 that European eels migrate to the Sargasso Sea to spawn. Before this people in North America and Europe had wondered where the small glass eels, or elvers, came from. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johannes Schmidt is the 901st most popular biologist (down from 858th in 2019), the 517th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 541st in 2019) and the 13th most popular Danish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johannes Schmidt ranks 901 out of 1,097. Before him are Benjamin Smith Barton, Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim, Ángel Cabrera, Alfred G. Knudson, Marmaduke Tunstall, and Otto Bütschli. After him are Christian Friedrich Ecklon, Palisot de Beauvois, Sereno Watson, Louis Fraser, Joseph Banks Rhine, and Joseph Barcroft.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Johannes Schmidt ranks 158. Before him are Sidney Johnson, Robert Farnan, Maud Wagner, Semyon Frank, Katherine Sophie Dreier, and Julius Curtius. After him are Consuelo Vanderbilt, Adolf Möller, Oscar Grégoire, Johann Friedrich Höger, Aleksandr Arbuzov, and Manuel González García. Among people deceased in 1933, Johannes Schmidt ranks 126. Before him are George Saling, Ludwig Schlesinger, Ismael Montes, Anita Rée, Albert Champoudry, and Stasys Girėnas. After him are Johann Berger, Achille Paroche, John Joly, György Almásy, Elizabeth Thompson, and Zaida Ben-Yusuf.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Johannes Schmidt ranks 517 out of 1,032. Before him are Anders Hejlsberg (1960), Jørgen Jørgensen (1780), Jesper Olsen (1961), John Eriksen (1957), Christen Dalsgaard (1824), and Henry Petersen (1900). After him are Martin Braithwaite (1991), Christian Friedrich Ecklon (1795), Julie Vinter Hansen (1890), Henrik Larsen (1966), Rasmus Højlund (2003), and Oswald of Worcester (1000).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Denmark

Among biologists born in Denmark, Johannes Schmidt ranks 13. Before him are Otto Friedrich Müller (1730), Christen C. Raunkiær (1860), Eugenius Warming (1841), Emil Christian Hansen (1842), Japetus Steenstrup (1813), and Johan Lange (1818). After him are Christian Friedrich Ecklon (1795).

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