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Maria Sibylla Merian

1647 - 1717

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Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 1647 – 13 January 1717) was a German entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator. She was one of the earliest European naturalists to document observations about insects directly. Merian was a descendant of the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss Merian family. Merian received her artistic training from her stepfather, Jacob Marrel, a student of the still life painter Georg Flegel. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maria Sibylla Merian is the 31st most popular biologist (down from 23rd in 2019), the 281st most popular biography from Germany (up from 286th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Biologist.

Maria Sibylla Merian was a German-born naturalist and artist. She is most famous for her detailed paintings of insects and plants, and she was the first woman to publish a book of illustrations of insects.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Maria Sibylla Merian ranks 31 out of 1,097. Before her are John Boyd Orr, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, Thomas Henry Huxley, John Sulston, Richard Dawkins, and Luc Montagnier. After her are Albrecht Kossel, Conrad Gessner, Francis Crick, George Smith, Trofim Lysenko, and Barbara McClintock.

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Among people born in 1647, Maria Sibylla Merian ranks 2. Before her is Denis Papin. After her are Pierre Bayle, Margaret Mary Alacoque, John George III, Elector of Saxony, Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark, Suleiman of Persia, Giovanni Ceva, John de Britto, Frederick VII, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, Constantine Phaulkon, and Elisabeth Hevelius. Among people deceased in 1717, Maria Sibylla Merian ranks 1. After her are Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark, Jeanne Guyon, Christian II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Samuel Bellamy, Anna Leszczyńska, Magnus Stenbock, Nicolaes Witsen, Jean Jouvenet, Abraham Darby I, and Abdul Aziz Hotak.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Maria Sibylla Merian ranks 281 out of 7,253. Before her are Ernst Jünger (1895), Herbert Marcuse (1898), Athanasius Kircher (1602), Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804), Wilhelm Pieck (1876), and Hans-Dieter Flick (1965). After her are Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883), Karl Weierstrass (1815), Ferdinand Tönnies (1855), Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1629), Joachim Gauck (1940), and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Maria Sibylla Merian ranks 2. Before her are Ernst Haeckel (1834). After her are Albrecht Kossel (1853), Peter Simon Pallas (1741), Harald zur Hausen (1936), Theodor Schwann (1810), Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804), Hans Spemann (1869), August Weismann (1834), Katherine Oppenheimer (1910), Ernst Mayr (1904), and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942).

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