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Nicolaus Michael Oppel

1782 - 1820

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Nicolaus Michael Oppel (December 7, 1782 in Schönficht – February 16, 1820 in Munich) was a German naturalist. He was a student of, and worked as an assistant to, André Marie Constant Duméril (1774-1860) at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, France, cataloging and classifying species of reptiles. In 1811, he published a book entitled Die Ordnungen, Familien und Gattungen der Reptilien als Prodrom einer Naturgeschichte derselben, or "The Orders, Families, and Types of Reptiles..." in which he established the order, Squamata, and the families Cheloniidae, Colubridae, and the subfamily Crotalinae, as well as several genera which are still in use by taxonomists today. With Friedrich Tiedemann (1781-1861) and Joseph Liboschitz (1783-1824), he was co-author of Naturgeschichte der Amphibien (Natural history of amphibians). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nicolaus Michael Oppel is the 815th most popular biologist (down from 653rd in 2019), the 4,517th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,294th in 2019) and the 168th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Nicolaus Michael Oppel ranks 815 out of 1,097. Before him are Jules Pierre Rambur, Aimée Antoinette Camus, William Thomas Blanford, João Barbosa Rodrigues, Herbert Giles, and Mary-Claire King. After him are Heinrich Göppert, André Thouin, Charlotte Auerbach, Gustav Lindau, Robert Trivers, and John Abbot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1782, Nicolaus Michael Oppel ranks 45. Before him are Julius Vincenz von Krombholz, Marie-Anne Libert, Georgios Kountouriotis, Maha Bandula, Steen Steensen Blicher, and Angelo Mai. After him are Lewis Cass, Charles James Napier, John Sell Cotman, and Thomas Hart Benton. Among people deceased in 1820, Nicolaus Michael Oppel ranks 37. Before him are Karl Ludwig Sand, Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Ivan Gudovich, Claudine Picardet, Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, and Louise Caroline of Hochberg. After him are Alexis Thérèse Petit, Charles Blagden, Palisot de Beauvois, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Stephen Decatur, and William Ellery.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Nicolaus Michael Oppel ranks 4,520 out of 7,253. Before him are Ellen Preis (1912), Juliane Köhler (1965), Jakob Streitle (1916), Friedrich Kittler (1943), Theodor Hoffmann (1935), and Eduard Sievers (1850). After him are Frank Beyer (1932), Eberhard Jäckel (1929), Charlotte Auerbach (1899), Ludwig Mond (1839), Gustav Lindau (1866), and Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Nicolaus Michael Oppel ranks 168. Before him are Karl Julius Perleb (1794), Eduard Oscar Schmidt (1823), Eduard von Martens (1831), Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein (1768), Ole Borch (1626), and Johann Jacob Dillenius (1684). After him are Charlotte Auerbach (1899), Gustav Lindau (1866), Albrecht Thaer (1752), Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz (1834), Ernst Ahl (1898), and Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller (1862).

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