BIOLOGIST

Adolf Engler

1844 - 1930

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Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler (25 March 1844 – 10 October 1930) was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, such as Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien (The Natural Plant Families), edited with Karl A. E. von Prantl. Even now, his system of plant classification, the Engler system, is still used by many herbaria and is followed by writers of many manuals and floras. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolf Engler has received more than 94,873 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Adolf Engler is the 152nd most popular biologist (up from 221st in 2019), the 243rd most popular biography from Poland (up from 384th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Adolf Engler ranks 152 out of 1,097. Before him are Jan Svatopluk Presl, Walther Flemming, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, and Julius Richard Petri. After him are Martin Evans, George Davis Snell, Leland H. Hartwell, Norman Borlaug, Salvador Luria, and Olaus Rudbeck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Adolf Engler ranks 29. Before him are Ismail Qemali, Charles-Marie Widor, Karl Lueger, `Abdu'l-Bahá, Abdur Rahman Khan, and Julius Wellhausen. After him are Charles-Émile Reynaud, Sophia Tolstaya, Saitō Hajime, Thomas Eakins, Henry J. Heinz, and Victorine Meurent. Among people deceased in 1930, Adolf Engler ranks 26. Before him are Siegfried Wagner, Prince Leopold of Bavaria, Sakichi Toyoda, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, Adolf von Harnack, and Luigi Facta. After him are Silvio Gesell, Vasily Bartold, Otto Mueller, Leopold Auer, Wilfrid Voynich, and Jules Pascin.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Adolf Engler ranks 243 out of 1,694. Before him are Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793), Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Julia, Princess of Battenberg (1825), Agnieszka Holland (1948), Arnold Zweig (1887), and Antoni Grabowski (1857). After him are Martin Agricola (1486), Bolesław Prus (1847), Udo Lattek (1935), Akiba Rubinstein (1880), Anna von Schweidnitz (1339), and Hermann Grassmann (1809).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Poland

Among biologists born in Poland, Adolf Engler ranks 4. Before him are Ferdinand Cohn (1828), Günter Blobel (1936), and Georg Forster (1754). After him are Johann Reinhold Forster (1729), Julius von Sachs (1832), C. L. Gloger (1803), Gustav Radde (1831), Heinrich von Kittlitz (1799), Martin Rathke (1793), Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884), and Władysław Taczanowski (1819).

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