BIOLOGIST

Adam Afzelius

1750 - 1837

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Adam Afzelius (8 October 1750 – 20 January 1837) was a Swedish botanist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Afzelius was born at Larv in Västergötland in 1750. He was appointed teacher of oriental languages at Uppsala University in 1777, and in 1785 demonstrator of botany. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adam Afzelius has received more than 37,557 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Adam Afzelius is the 203rd most popular biologist (up from 208th in 2019), the 233rd most popular biography from Sweden (up from 261st in 2019) and the 11th most popular Swedish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Adam Afzelius ranks 203 out of 1,097. Before him are Carl Ludwig Willdenow, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, John James Audubon, Charles Bell, Hugo Gunckel Lüer, and Oldfield Thomas. After him are Waldemar Haffkine, J. B. S. Haldane, Pierre Belon, Mikhail Tsvet, Friedrich Parrot, and Johann Reinhold Forster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1750, Adam Afzelius ranks 15. Before him are Francisco de Miranda, Heshen, Murad Bey, Maria Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Massa, Ami Argand, and Karl August von Hardenberg. After him are Sheikh Mansur, Henri Grégoire, Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, Lorenzo Mascheroni, Princess Louise of Denmark, and Fabre d'Églantine. Among people deceased in 1837, Adam Afzelius ranks 16. Before him are François Gérard, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands, John Field, Philippe Buonarroti, Duke Pius August in Bavaria, and Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After him are Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria, 10th Dalai Lama, Ludwig Börne, William George Horner, Jean-François Le Sueur, and Mariano José de Larra.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Adam Afzelius ranks 233 out of 1,879. Before him are Lena Olin (1955), Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland (1973), Princess Margaretha of Sweden (1899), Lars Vilks (1946), Elsa Beskow (1874), and Christina Magdalena of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken (1616). After him are Reino Börjesson (1929), Catherine Stenbock (1535), Olaus Petri (1493), Sven Nykvist (1922), Hjalmar Söderberg (1869), and Mats Wilander (1964).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Adam Afzelius ranks 11. Before him are Tomas Lindahl (1938), Carl Peter Thunberg (1743), Carl Linnaeus the Younger (1741), Olaus Rudbeck (1630), Erik Acharius (1757), and Eva Ekeblad (1724). After him are Anders Sparrman (1748), Daniel Solander (1733), Peter Artedi (1705), Pehr Kalm (1716), Carl Alexander Clerck (1710), and Göran Wahlenberg (1780).

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