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Karl Adolph von Basedow

1799 - 1854

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Carl Adolph von Basedow (28 March 1799 – 11 April 1854) was a German physician most famous for reporting the symptoms of what could later be dubbed Graves-Basedow disease, now technically known as exophthalmic goiter. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Adolph von Basedow is the 261st most popular physician (down from 221st in 2019), the 1,809th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,540th in 2019) and the 38th most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Karl Adolph von Basedow ranks 261 out of 726. Before him are Hans Rosling, Leonhart Fuchs, Joseph Erlanger, Gavriil Ilizarov, Wim Eijk, and May-Britt Moser. After him are Cicely Saunders, Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, François Magendie, Caspar Friedrich Wolff, Clarke Abel, and Bernard Kouchner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Karl Adolph von Basedow ranks 18. Before him are Karl Bryullov, Anna Atkins, Rodolphe Töpffer, Christian Friedrich Schönbein, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, and John Lindley. After him are Ferenc Gyulay, George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Almeida Garrett, René Caillié, Vincenz Priessnitz, and David Douglas. Among people deceased in 1854, Karl Adolph von Basedow ranks 11. Before him are Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais, Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Johann Peter Eckermann, Charles III, Duke of Parma, Józef Elsner, and Zénaïde Bonaparte. After him are Fructuoso Rivera, Nathaniel Wallich, Princess Louise Amelie of Baden, Almeida Garrett, Marcellin Marbot, and Jeremias Gotthelf.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Adolph von Basedow ranks 1,809 out of 7,253. Before him are Hugo Riemann (1849), Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806), Johann Heinrich von Mädler (1794), Paul Troost (1878), Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1778), and Alfred Schmidt (1931). After him are Conrad Celtes (1459), Erich Naumann (1905), Eduard Spranger (1882), Otto Sander (1941), Princess Elisabeth of Saxony (1830), and August Hirt (1898).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Karl Adolph von Basedow ranks 38. Before him are Sebastian Kneipp (1821), Ernst-Robert Grawitz (1899), Ernst-Günther Schenck (1904), Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818), Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (1766), and Leonhart Fuchs (1501). After him are Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1735), Friedrich Kasimir Medikus (1736), Johann Conrad Dippel (1673), Eduard Wirths (1909), August Oetker (1862), and Hans Berger (1873).

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