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Max Fürbringer

1846 - 1920

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Max Carl Anton Fürbringer (January 30, 1846 – March 6, 1920) was a German anatomist, known for his anatomical investigations of vertebrates and especially for his studies in ornithology on avian morphology and classification. He was responsible for the first major phylogenetic ordering of bird groups based on a large scale study on a combination of skeletal, morphological and anatomical characteristics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Max Fürbringer is the 989th most popular biologist (down from 831st in 2019), the 5,284th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,920th in 2019) and the 189th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Max Fürbringer ranks 989 out of 1,097. Before him are Alister Hardy, Ludwig Carl Christian Koch, Heinrich Kuhl, Frederic Moore, David Prain, and John Cassin. After him are George Montagu, Gottlieb Haberlandt, Herbert Boyer, George Engelmann, Theobald Smith, and Samuel Garman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Max Fürbringer ranks 109. Before him are Marco Aurelio Soto, Nikolay Umov, Elizabeth Thompson, Benigno Ferreira, William McGregor, and Federico Chueca. After him are Björn Jónsson, Raimundo Andueza Palacio, Randolph Caldecott, Maksymilian Gierymski, Ira Remsen, and Michael Davitt. Among people deceased in 1920, Max Fürbringer ranks 128. Before him are Wilberforce Eaves, Pablo Arosemena, Ludwig Ganghofer, Pavel Shternberg, William C. Gorgas, and Samuel Colman. After him are Daniel Kelly, Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann, Walter W. Winans, Amedee Reyburn, Horace Elgin Dodge, and Mary Augusta Ward.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max Fürbringer ranks 5,287 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans Klenk (1919), Helmut Rix (1926), Ferdinand von Schirach (1964), Erwin Huber (1943), Eugen Burg (1871), and Heiko Maas (1966). After him are Ossi Reichert (1925), Christian Ehrenfried Weigel (1748), Carl Mayet (1810), Hansi Kürsch (1966), Sebastian Kehl (1980), and Otto Bartning (1883).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Max Fürbringer ranks 189. Before him are Philipp Christoph Zeller (1808), Curt Backeberg (1894), Tilly Edinger (1897), Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727), Ludwig Carl Christian Koch (1825), and Heinrich Kuhl (1797). After him are George Engelmann (1809), Alexander Wendt (1958), Peter Duesberg (1936), Christian Drosten (1972), and Magnus Manske (1974).

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