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Paul Hermann

1646 - 1695

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Paul Hermann (30 June 1646, Halle – 29 January 1695, Leiden) was a German-born physician and botanist who for 15 years was director of the Hortus Botanicus Leiden. Born in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Paul Hermann was the son of Johann Hermann, a well-known organist, and Maria Magdalena Röber, a clergyman's daughter. Hermann studied theology and medicine in Wittenberg and botany in Leipzig. After graduating from Europe's finest medical school, Padua in 1670, he was then engaged by the Dutch East India Company and went to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) as a Ship's Medical Officer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Hermann is the 392nd most popular physician (up from 569th in 2019), the 2,933rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,524th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Paul Hermann ranks 392 out of 726. Before him are Willi Graf, Filippo Pacini, Frances Oldham Kelsey, Luigi Carlo Farini, Moritz Kaposi, and Robert Liston. After him are Emil Aarestrup, Johann Lukas Schönlein, Kusumoto Ine, Hélène Sparrow, Karl Friedrich Burdach, and Ibn Abi Usaibia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1646, Paul Hermann ranks 14. Before him are Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Godfrey Kneller, Maria Francisca of Savoy, Hortense Mancini, Charles Plumier, and Alexandre Exquemelin. After him are Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans, Glückel of Hameln, Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, Johann Theile, and Nicolas de Fer. Among people deceased in 1695, Paul Hermann ranks 14. Before him are Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, Zumbi, Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł, Thomas Tew, and Melchior d'Hondecoeter. After him are Pierre Nicole, Georg von Derfflinger, Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Christoph Arnold, Huang Zongxi, and Samuel Morland.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Paul Hermann ranks 2,935 out of 7,253. Before him are Nico Rosberg (1985), Karl Weyprecht (1838), Max von Oppenheim (1860), Wolfgang Lotz (1921), Herbert Erhardt (1930), and Auguste von Harrach (1800). After him are Arno Schmidt (1914), Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (1599), Guido Westerwelle (1961), Johann Lukas Schönlein (1793), Sebastian Koch (1962), and Marie of Baden-Sponheim (1507).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Paul Hermann ranks 63. Before him are Johann Peter Frank (1745), Paul Julius Möbius (1853), Johann Kremer (1883), Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (1776), Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875), and Willi Graf (1918). After him are Johann Lukas Schönlein (1793), Karl Friedrich Burdach (1776), Adolph Kolping (1813), Justinus Kerner (1786), Ewald Hering (1834), and Wilhelm Griesinger (1817).

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