BIOLOGIST

Pieter Bleeker

1819 - 1870

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Pieter Bleeker (10 July 1819 – 24 January 1878) was a Dutch medical doctor, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. He was famous for the Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Néêrlandaises, his monumental work on the fishes of East Asia published between 1862 and 1877. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pieter Bleeker is the 425th most popular biologist (up from 437th in 2019), the 414th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 508th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Dutch Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Pieter Bleeker ranks 425 out of 1,097. Before him are Adolf Mayer, Martha Chase, James P. Allison, Joseph Gaertner, Göran Wahlenberg, and Blasius Merrem. After him are Asa Gray, Karl Eichwald, Andrew Smith, Abraham Trembley, Ivan Martinov, and Paul Gervais.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Pieter Bleeker ranks 48. Before him are Eunice Newton Foote, Estanislao Figueras, Alfred Escher, Clément Juglar, Milan Obrenović II, Prince of Serbia, and Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. After him are Gustave de Molinari, Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Narcís Monturiol, Tirimüjgan Kadın, and André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri. Among people deceased in 1870, Pieter Bleeker ranks 33. Before him are Justo José de Urquiza, Konstantin Ushinsky, Friedrich Boie, Victor de Broglie, Paul-Émile Botta, and Charles Xavier Thomas. After him are Karel Jaromír Erben, Arthur Saint-Léon, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Prince Frederick of Württemberg, Cesare Pugni, and Alexei Lvov.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Pieter Bleeker ranks 414 out of 1,646. Before him are Corrie ten Boom (1892), Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (1621), Herman Gorter (1864), Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635), Anna van Egmont (1533), and Karel Dujardin (1622). After him are Giovanni van Bronckhorst (1975), Dirk I, Count of Holland (875), Kees Rijvers (1926), Cornelis Engebrechtsz. (1468), Hendrik Casimir (1909), and Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (1821).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Netherlands

Among biologists born in Netherlands, Pieter Bleeker ranks 11. Before him are Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778), Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727), Jan Swammerdam (1637), Martinus Beijerinck (1851), Pieter Boddaert (1730), and Nicolaas Laurens Burman (1734). After him are Wilhem de Haan (1801), George Clifford III (1685), Pieter Willem Korthals (1807), Volcher Coiter (1534), Johannes Burman (1707), and C. B. van Niel (1897).

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