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Karl Gegenbaur

1826 - 1903

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Carl Gegenbaur (21 August 1826 – 14 June 1903) was a German anatomist and professor who demonstrated that the field of comparative anatomy offers important evidence supporting of the theory of evolution. As a professor of anatomy at the University of Jena (1855–1873) and at the University of Heidelberg (1873–1903), Carl Gegenbaur was a strong supporter of Charles Darwin's theory of organic evolution, having taught and worked, beginning in 1858, with Ernst Haeckel, eight years his junior. Gegenbaur's book Grundzüge der vergleichenden Anatomie (1859; English translation Elements of Comparative Anatomy by Francis Jeffrey Bell, 1878) became the standard textbook, at the time, of evolutionary morphology, emphasizing that structural similarities among various animals provide clues to their evolutionary history. Gegenbaur noted that the most reliable clue to evolutionary history is homology, the comparison of anatomical parts which have a common evolutionary origin. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Gegenbaur is the 313th most popular biologist (up from 478th in 2019), the 2,104th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,482nd in 2019) and the 54th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Karl Gegenbaur ranks 313 out of 1,097. Before her are Hieronymus Bock, Karl Alfred von Zittel, Motoo Kimura, John Gurdon, Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, and Elmer Drew Merrill. After her are Gerrit Smith Miller, Jean Victoir Audouin, Ian Wilmut, Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben, and David Bruce.

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Among people born in 1826, Karl Gegenbaur ranks 24. Before her are Adolf Bastian, Karl von Piloty, William Waddington, George Johnstone Stoney, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia, and Henri Mouhot. After her are Julia Grant, Giovanni Battista Donati, George B. McClellan, Stephen Foster, Giuseppe Zanardelli, and Walter Bagehot. Among people deceased in 1903, Karl Gegenbaur ranks 28. Before her are Marcel Renault, Sabino Arana, Camillo Sitte, Richard Jordan Gatling, Sophie Gengembre Anderson, and Práxedes Mateo Sagasta. After her are Émile Baudot, Charles Renouvier, Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov, Hans Gude, Gaston Paris, and Rudolf Lipschitz.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Gegenbaur ranks 2,105 out of 7,253. Before her are Georg Lindemann (1884), Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann (1662), Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony (1730), Paul Gerhardt (1607), Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1630), and Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau (1833). After her are Walter Brandmüller (1929), Adolph Freiherr Knigge (1752), Gerhard Schmidhuber (1894), Dora Ratjen (1918), Johannes R. Becher (1891), and Kunigunde of Hohenstaufen (1202).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Karl Gegenbaur ranks 54. Before her are Jean Cabanis (1816), Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (1811), Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725), Jacob Christian Schäffer (1718), Hieronymus Bock (1498), and Karl Alfred von Zittel (1839). After her are Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (1744), Christian Ludwig Brehm (1787), Willi Hennig (1913), Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776), Hermann Burmeister (1807), and Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809).

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