BIOLOGIST

Martin Rathke

1793 - 1860

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Martin Heinrich Rathke (25 August 1793, Danzig – 3 September 1860, Königsberg) was a German embryologist and anatomist. Along with Karl Ernst von Baer and Christian Heinrich Pander, he is recognized as one of the founders of modern embryology. He was the father of chemist Bernhard Rathke (1840–1923). He studied medicine and natural history at the University of Göttingen, later relocating to Berlin, where he received his doctorate in medicine (1818). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Martin Rathke is the 496th most popular biologist (up from 608th in 2019), the 662nd most popular biography from Poland (up from 866th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Polish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Martin Rathke ranks 496 out of 1,097. Before him are Zhores Medvedev, David Starr Jordan, Vladimir Demikhov, Giuseppe Acerbi, Gabriel Bibron, and Emil Christian Hansen. After him are Jeanne Villepreux-Power, Salomon Müller, Guillaume Rondelet, Johann Hedwig, Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, and Achille Richard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1793, Martin Rathke ranks 35. Before him are Baldomero Espartero, Lucretia Mott, Aleksander Fredro, Marie Antoinette Murat, Casimir Delavigne, and Pavel Pestel. After him are Demetrios Ypsilantis, Joseph Paul Gaimard, Simonas Daukantas, Charles Lock Eastlake, Philip Barker-Webb, and Felix de Muelenaere. Among people deceased in 1860, Martin Rathke ranks 35. Before him are Joseph Cafasso, Élie, duc Decazes, Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi, Eduard Friedrich Eversmann, and Ludwig Rellstab. After him are Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, James Braid, Johann Friedrich Klotzsch, Christian Gmelin, Tokugawa Nariaki, and Louis Hersent.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Martin Rathke ranks 662 out of 1,694. Before him are Tadeusz Kutrzeba (1885), Leopold Okulicki (1898), Stefanie Zweig (1932), Salomon Morel (1919), Janusz Kusociński (1907), and Peter Yorck von Wartenburg (1904). After him are Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin (1922), Józef Glemp (1929), Theodor Kaluza (1885), Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz (1852), Hermann Boehm (1884), and Marcin Bielski (1495).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Poland

Among biologists born in Poland, Martin Rathke ranks 9. Before him are Ferdinand Cohn (1828), Adolf Engler (1844), C. L. Gloger (1803), Johann Reinhold Forster (1729), Julius von Sachs (1832), and Johannes Thiele (1860). After him are Władysław Taczanowski (1819), Gustav Radde (1831), Michael Sela (1924), Heinrich von Kittlitz (1799), Wilhelm Hemprich (1796), and Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925).

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