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Marcus Elieser Bloch

1723 - 1799

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Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723–1799) was a German physician and naturalist who is best known for his contribution to ichthyology through his multi-volume catalog of plates illustrating the fishes of the world. Brought up in a Hebrew-speaking Jewish family, he learned German and Latin and studied anatomy before settling in Berlin as a physician. He amassed a large natural history collection, particularly of fish specimens. He is generally considered one of the most important ichthyologists of the 18th century, and wrote many papers on natural history, comparative anatomy, and physiology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marcus Elieser Bloch is the 323rd most popular physician (up from 406th in 2019), the 2,348th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,219th in 2019) and the 46th most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Marcus Elieser Bloch ranks 323 out of 726. Before him are Alessandro Achillini, Joseph Škoda, Ernst Gräfenberg, Jean-Baptiste Denys, Tomáš Špidlík, and Titus Brandsma. After him are Vincenz Priessnitz, Leon Pinsker, Gerard van Swieten, Shinya Yamanaka, Sigmund Rascher, and Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1723, Marcus Elieser Bloch ranks 17. Before him are Prithvi Narayan Shah, Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Nicole-Reine Lepaute, Tobias Mayer, Johann Bernhard Basedow, and Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm. After him are Princess Mary of Great Britain, Pehr Osbeck, Mir Taqi Mir, William Blackstone, Philip II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, and Antoine Louis. Among people deceased in 1799, Marcus Elieser Bloch ranks 22. Before him are Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Jan Ingenhousz, Jean-Charles de Borda, Étienne-Louis Boullée, Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, and Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz. After him are Claude Balbastre, Pierre Charles Le Monnier, Patrick Henry, Johann Hedwig, Pierre Pigneau de Behaine, and William Curtis.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Marcus Elieser Bloch ranks 2,349 out of 7,253. Before him are Erich Mühsam (1878), Johannes Schöner (1477), Antonio Rüdiger (1993), Wilhelm Röpke (1899), Anna of Brandenburg (1487), and Judith Kerr (1923). After him are Uli Jon Roth (1954), Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764), Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1667), Eduard Meyer (1855), Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia (1155), and Otto Wöhler (1894).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Marcus Elieser Bloch ranks 46. Before him are Friedrich Kasimir Medikus (1736), Johann Conrad Dippel (1673), Eduard Wirths (1909), August Oetker (1862), Hans Berger (1873), and Ernst Gräfenberg (1881). After him are Sigmund Rascher (1909), Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin (1744), Dorothea Erxleben (1715), Richard Wilhelm (1873), Friedrich Hoffmann (1660), and Karl Genzken (1885).

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