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Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich

1806 - 1886

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Otto Wilhelm Hermann Abich (11 December 1806 – 1 July 1886) was a German mineralogist and geologist who was among the first to conduct scientific studies in the Caucasus region and has been called the Father of Caucasian Geology. He worked briefly at the Imperial University of Dorpat and then travelled as part of the Corps of Mining Engineers of the Russian Empire. He collected minerals and fossils across the regions in which he travelled including Armenia, Persia, Italy and Daghestan. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich is the 270th most popular biologist (down from 91st in 2019), the 1,804th most popular biography from Germany (down from 735th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich ranks 270 out of 1,097. Before him are Carl Sigismund Kunth, Friedrich Parrot, Erik Pontoppidan, Alexander von Middendorff, Carl Gustav Carus, and Desmond Morris. After him are Francisco Varela, C. L. Gloger, Jack W. Szostak, Carl Ludwig Blume, Leopold Fitzinger, and Morten Thrane Brünnich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich ranks 21. Before him are Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller, and Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse. After him are Karl Friedrich Mohr, Johan Vilhelm Snellman, John A. Roebling, William, Duke of Brunswick, Antoine Wiertz, and Teodolfo Mertel. Among people deceased in 1886, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich ranks 18. Before him are Ilya Ulyanov, Prince Louis, Count of Trani, Lydia Koidula, Karl von Piloty, Pierre-Jules Hetzel, and Charles Francis Adams Sr.. After him are Alexander Butlerov, Theodor von Oppolzer, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant, Adolphe Monticelli, Charles Lwanga, and Jules Jamin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich ranks 1,804 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia (1716), Andreas Köpke (1962), Magdalene of Brandenburg (1582), Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694), Carl Gustav Carus (1789), and Hugo Riemann (1849). After him are Johann Heinrich von Mädler (1794), Paul Troost (1878), Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1778), Alfred Schmidt (1931), Karl Adolph von Basedow (1799), and Conrad Celtes (1459).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich ranks 43. Before him are Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider (1750), Johann Baptist von Spix (1781), Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767), Carl Sigismund Kunth (1788), Friedrich Parrot (1791), and Carl Gustav Carus (1789). After him are Carl Ludwig Blume (1796), Eduard Rüppell (1794), Lorenz Oken (1779), Otto Brunfels (1488), Jean Cabanis (1816), and Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (1811).

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