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Adam Lonicer

1528 - 1586

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Adam Lonicer, Adam Lonitzer or Adamus Lonicerus (10 October 1528 – 29 May 1586) was a German botanist, noted for his 1557 revised version of Eucharius Rösslin's herbal. Lonicer was born in Marburg, the son of a theologian and philologist. He studied at Marburg and the University of Mainz, and obtained his Magister degree at sixteen years of age. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adam Lonicer has received more than 27,377 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Adam Lonicer is the 629th most popular biologist (down from 524th in 2019), the 4,193rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,589th in 2019) and the 141st most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Adam Lonicer ranks 629 out of 1,097. Before him are William Henry Hudson, Max Carl Wilhelm Weber, Magnus Manske, Jean Victoir Audouin, Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter, and Émile Duclaux. After him are Carl-Gustaf Rossby, René Maire, Edmund Beecher Wilson, Ludwik Hirszfeld, Adrien René Franchet, and Nikolay Drozdov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1528, Adam Lonicer ranks 23. Before him are Claude Le Jeune, Eric II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Pedro da Fonseca, António Ferreira, Benito Arias Montano, and Rémy Belleau.  Among people deceased in 1586, Adam Lonicer ranks 16. Before him are Birbal, Ignazio Danti, Philip Sidney, Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt, Martín de Azpilcueta, and Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Mecklenburg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adam Lonicer ranks 4,193 out of 7,253. Before him are Roger Schmidt (1967), Henriette Herz (1764), Bel Kaufman (1911), Princess Gisela Agnes of Anhalt-Köthen (1722), Theodor Hoffmann (1935), and Jacob Hübner (1761). After him are Otto Schily (1932), Joachim Ringelnatz (1883), Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1906), Gottlieb von Jagow (1863), Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1640), and Hugo Distler (1908).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Adam Lonicer ranks 141. Before him are Ludwig Diels (1874), Richard Goldschmidt (1878), Rolf Singer (1906), Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708), Max Carl Wilhelm Weber (1852), and Magnus Manske (1974). After him are Karl Hugo Strunz (1910), Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter (1733), Nicolaus Michael Oppel (1782), Eduard Oscar Schmidt (1823), Hugo von Mohl (1805), and Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (1798).

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