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Karl Ernst von Baer

1792 - 1876

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Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer Edler von Huthorn (Russian: Карл Макси́мович Бэр; 28 February [O.S. 17 February] 1792 – 28 November [O.S. 16 November] 1876) was a Baltic German scientist and explorer. Baer was a naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, and is considered a, or the, founding father of embryology. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a co-founder of the Russian Geographical Society, and the first president of the Russian Entomological Society, making him one of the most distinguished Baltic German scientists. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Ernst von Baer is the 54th most popular biologist (down from 42nd in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Estonia and the most popular Estonian Biologist.

Karl Ernst von Baer is most famous for his discovery of the mammalian ovum in 1827.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Karl Ernst von Baer ranks 54 out of 1,097. Before him are Nikolaas Tinbergen, Tomas Lindahl, Irwin Rose, Charles Richet, Lazzaro Spallanzani, and André Michel Lwoff. After him are Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, François Jacob, Roger Guillemin, Theodor Schwann, Hugo Gunckel Lüer, and René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1792, Karl Ernst von Baer ranks 8. Before him are Gioachino Rossini, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, John Herschel, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William II of the Netherlands. After him are Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, Alexander Ypsilantis, Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Johann Peter Eckermann, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, and Gulab Singh. Among people deceased in 1876, Karl Ernst von Baer ranks 6. Before him are Mikhail Bakunin, Abdülaziz, George Sand, Wild Bill Hickok, and Antonio López de Santa Anna. After him are George Armstrong Custer, Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Truganini, Catherine Labouré, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, and Ildefons Cerdà.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Karl Ernst von Baer ranks 6 out of 351. Before him are Catherine I of Russia (1684), Alfred Rosenberg (1893), Arvo Pärt (1935), Emil Lenz (1804), and Arnold Rüütel (1928). After him are Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (1778), Konstantin Päts (1874), Lennart Meri (1929), Wolfgang Köhler (1887), Paul Keres (1916), and Kaja Kallas (1977).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Estonia

Among biologists born in Estonia, Karl Ernst von Baer ranks 1. After him are Jakob von Uexküll (1864), and Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz (1793).

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