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Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti

1735 - 1805

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Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti (4 December 1735, Vienna – 17 February 1805, Vienna) was an Austrian naturalist and zoologist of Italian origin. Laurenti is considered the auctor of the class Reptilia (reptiles) through his authorship of Specimen Medicum, Exhibens Synopsin Reptilium Emendatam cum Experimentis circa Venena (1768) on the poisonous function of reptiles and amphibians. This was an important book in herpetology, defining thirty genera of reptiles; Carl Linnaeus's 10th edition of Systema Naturae in 1758 defined only ten genera. Specimen Medicum contains a description of the blind salamander (amphibian): Proteus anguinus, purportedly collected from cave waters in Slovenia (or possibly western Croatia); this description represented one of the first published accounts of a cave animal in the western world, although Proteus anguinus was not recognized as a cave animal at the time. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti is the 284th most popular biologist (up from 373rd in 2019), the 409th most popular biography from Austria (up from 574th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Austrian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti ranks 284 out of 1,097. Before him are James Rothman, Eduard Rüppell, Nathaniel Wallich, Johann Hermann, Hideyo Noguchi, and André Marie Constant Duméril. After him are John Gould, René Louiche Desfontaines, Michael Rosbash, Michael W. Young, Odoardo Beccari, and Johann Jakob von Tschudi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1735, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti ranks 12. Before him are Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, Ibrahim Bey, August Ludwig von Schlözer, Caspar Friedrich Wolff, and Torbern Bergman. After him are John Carroll, Paul Revere, Ahmad al-Tijani, Johann Karl August Musäus, Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, and Dmitry Levitzky. Among people deceased in 1805, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti ranks 14. Before him are Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, and Mihrişah Sultan. After him are Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron, William Paley, Pehr Osbeck, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, and Nicolas-Jacques Conté.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti ranks 409 out of 1,424. Before him are Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774), Archduchess Mathilda of Austria (1849), Archduchess Louise of Austria (1870), Robert Stolz (1880), André Gorz (1923), and Franz Josef Popp (1886). After him are Oscar Straus (1870), Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels (1874), Heinz Kohut (1913), Franz Vranitzky (1937), Friedrich von Amerling (1803), and Archduchess Adelheid of Austria (1914).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Austria

Among biologists born in Austria, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti ranks 8. Before him are Karl Landsteiner (1868), Karl von Frisch (1886), Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901), Othenio Abel (1875), Joy Adamson (1910), and Leopold Fitzinger (1802). After him are Erich von Tschermak (1871), Clemens von Pirquet (1874), Otto Stapf (1857), Franz Steindachner (1834), Joseph Rock (1884), and Ignaz Schiffermüller (1727).

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