ANTHROPOLOGIST

Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring

1755 - 1830

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Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring (28 January 1755 – 2 March 1830) was a German physician, anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor. Sömmerring discovered the macula in the retina of the human eye. His investigations on the brain and the nervous system, on the sensory organs, on the embryo and its malformations, on the structure of the lungs, etc., made him one of the most important German anatomists. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring is the 33rd most popular anthropologist (up from 40th in 2019), the 521st most popular biography from Poland (up from 664th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring ranks 33 out of 93. Before him are Jacques de Morgan, Ann Dunham, Marshall Sahlins, Marc Augé, Fredrik Barth, and Richard Leakey. After him are Henry Fairfield Osborn, Franco Basaglia, Pierre Clastres, Cheikh Anta Diop, Marcel Griaule, and David Graeber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring ranks 24. Before him are Peter I, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow, Bertrand Barère, Natalia Alexeievna, Quatremère de Quincy, and Anacharsis Cloots. After him are Princess Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt, Infante Antonio Pascual of Spain, John Flaxman, Gilbert Stuart, John Marshall, and Robert Kerr. Among people deceased in 1830, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring ranks 19. Before him are Louis Henri, Prince of Condé, Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden, Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg, Petar I Petrović-Njegoš, Dominique Vandamme, and Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt. After him are Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis, Elizabeth Monroe, Swaminarayan, Pierre Rode, Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg, and Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring ranks 521 out of 1,694. Before him are Aaron Kosminski (1865), Stanisław Kania (1927), Maciej Stryjkowski (1547), Aleksander Orłowski (1777), Franz Waxman (1906), and Israel Joshua Singer (1893). After him are Stanisław Poniatowski (1676), Fritz Gerlich (1883), Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821), Richard Thomalla (1903), Vladimir Chelomey (1914), and Henryk Dembiński (1791).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Poland

Among anthropologists born in Poland, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring ranks 2. Before him are Bronisław Malinowski (1884).

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