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Philipp Franz von Siebold

1796 - 1866

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Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold (17 February 1796 – 18 October 1866) was a German physician, botanist and traveller. He achieved prominence by his studies of Japanese flora and fauna and the introduction of Western medicine in Japan. He was the father of the first female Japanese doctor educated in Western medicine, Kusumoto Ine. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Philipp Franz von Siebold is the 210th most popular physician (up from 222nd in 2019), the 1,408th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,557th in 2019) and the 29th most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Philipp Franz von Siebold ranks 210 out of 726. Before him are Leonid Rogozov, Georges Gilles de la Tourette, Marcel Petiot, Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, Patch Adams, and Louis Ignarro. After him are Thomas Willis, Frederick Griffith, Guy de Chauliac, Waldemar Hoven, Mehriban Aliyeva, and Zhang Zhongjing.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1796, Philipp Franz von Siebold ranks 14. Before him are Franz Berwald, Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg, Asher Brown Durand, Jakob Steiner, Walter Hunt, and Peter Fendi. After him are Giovanni Pacini, Carl Loewe, Carl Ludwig Blume, Ang Duong, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, and Princess Frederica Wilhelmina of Prussia. Among people deceased in 1866, Philipp Franz von Siebold ranks 8. Before him are Miguel I of Portugal, George Everest, Karl Ludwig Hencke, Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Hermann Goldschmidt, and Tokugawa Iemochi. After him are Madame Clicquot Ponsardin, William Whewell, Chief Seattle, Friedrich Rückert, Rikard Nordraak, and Thomas Hodgkin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Philipp Franz von Siebold ranks 1,408 out of 7,253. Before him are Thomas Kretschmann (1962), Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794), Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752), Arthur Scherbius (1878), Leopold Gmelin (1788), and August Grisebach (1814). After him are Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (1803), Else Lasker-Schüler (1869), Arnold van Gennep (1873), Hans Werner Henze (1926), Alfred Krupp (1812), and Axel Honneth (1949).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Philipp Franz von Siebold ranks 29. Before him are Engelbert Kaempfer (1651), Adolf Eugen Fick (1829), Ludwig Guttmann (1899), Horst Schumann (1906), Werner Haase (1900), and Franciscus Sylvius (1614). After him are Waldemar Hoven (1903), Carl Ludwig (1816), Sebastian Kneipp (1821), Ernst-Robert Grawitz (1899), Ernst-Günther Schenck (1904), and Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818).

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