The Most Famous
BIOLOGISTS from Croatia
This page contains a list of the greatest Croatian Biologists. The pantheon dataset contains 841 Biologists, 2 of which were born in Croatia. This makes Croatia the birth place of the 36th most number of Biologists behind Pakistan and Argentina.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Croatian Biologists of all time. This list of famous Croatian Biologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Josif Pančić (1814 - 1888)
With an HPI of 54.17, Josif Pančić is the most famous Croatian Biologist. His biography has been translated into 26 different languages on wikipedia.
Josif Pančić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јосиф Панчић; April 17, 1814 – February 25, 1888) was a Serbian botanist, a doctor of medicine, a lecturer at the Great School (the future University of Belgrade), and the first president of the Serbian Royal Academy. He extensively documented the flora of Serbia, and is credited with having classified many species of plants which were unknown to the botanical community at that time. Pančić is credited with discovering the Serbian spruce. He is regarded as the father of Serbian botany.
2. Roberto de Visiani (1800 - 1878)
With an HPI of 48.18, Roberto de Visiani is the 2nd most famous Croatian Biologist. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Roberto de Visiani (1800-1878) (in Croatian: Robert Visiani) was a Dalmatian Italian botanist, naturalist and scholar. He is seen as one of the fathers of modern botany in Italy. The standard author abbreviation Vis. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as biologists born between 1800 and 1814. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased biologists include Josif Pančić and Roberto de Visiani. As of April 2022, 1 new biologists have been added to Pantheon including Roberto de Visiani.
