BIOLOGIST

Wilhelm Hemprich

1796 - 1825

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Wilhelm Friedrich Hemprich (24 June 1796 – 30 June 1825) was a German naturalist and explorer. Hemprich was born in Glatz (Kłodzko), Prussian Silesia, and studied medicine at Breslau and Berlin. It was in Berlin that he became friends with Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, the two men sharing an interest in natural history. Hemprich lectured at Berlin University on comparative physiology, and wrote Grundriss der Naturgeschichte (Compendium of Natural History) (1820). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Hemprich is the 738th most popular biologist (down from 674th in 2019), the 895th most popular biography from Poland (up from 934th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Polish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Wilhelm Hemprich ranks 738 out of 1,097. Before him are Thomas Bell, William Roxburgh, Victor Motschulsky, Bunzō Hayata, Edmund Beecher Wilson, and Nicaise Auguste Desvaux. After him are Hugo von Mohl, Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers, Sabin Berthelot, Johann Friedrich Adam, Charles Conrad Abbott, and Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold.

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Among people born in 1796, Wilhelm Hemprich ranks 50. Before him are Anton Pann, Pyotr Anjou, Nikolai Turczaninow, Leopold II, Prince of Lippe, Franz von Schober, and Antonios Kriezis. After him are Immanuel Hermann Fichte, Stefano Franscini, Philippe Buchez, Princess Ida of Waldeck and Pyrmont, John M. Clayton, and Frederick William Beechey. Among people deceased in 1825, Wilhelm Hemprich ranks 30. Before him are Jan Václav Voříšek, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Pierre Gaveaux, Peter Winter, Juan Martín Díez, and Johann Karl Burckhardt. After him are Utagawa Toyokuni, Maha Bandula, Frederick IV, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Yakov Sannikov, Edward Pigott, and Franciszek Karpiński.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Wilhelm Hemprich ranks 895 out of 1,694. Before him are Ignacy Potocki (1750), Henryk Sławik (1894), Max Gerson (1881), Egon Franke (1935), Józef Mehoffer (1869), and Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak (1951). After him are Tomasz Stańko (1942), Eva-Maria Hagen (1934), Willibald Alexis (1798), Jędrzej Moraczewski (1870), Jacek Gmoch (1939), and Walter Thiel (1910).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Poland

Among biologists born in Poland, Wilhelm Hemprich ranks 14. Before him are Johannes Thiele (1860), Martin Rathke (1793), Władysław Taczanowski (1819), Gustav Radde (1831), Michael Sela (1924), and Heinrich von Kittlitz (1799). After him are Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925), Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884), Heinrich Göppert (1800), Aharon Katzir (1914), Jan Sztolcman (1854), and Walter Migula (1863).

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