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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 86,699 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Adolf Engler is the 222nd most popular biologist (down from 165th in 2019), the 384th most popular biography from Poland (down from 284th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Adolf Engler ranks 222 out of 841Before him are Pierre Belon, Michael Rosbash, Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Michael W. Young, Erik Acharius, and Carl Ludwig Willdenow. After him are Eva Ekeblad, Bruce Beutler, H. Robert Horvitz, Peter Forsskål, John Lindley, and Francisco Varela.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Adolf Engler ranks 34Before him are Karl Lueger, Julius Wellhausen, Sophia Tolstaya, Saitō Hajime, Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon, and Henry J. Heinz. After him are Mihály Munkácsy, Eduard Strasburger, Louis Riel, Minna Canth, Thomas Eakins, and Joshua Slocum. Among people deceased in 1930, Adolf Engler ranks 40Before him are Vasily Bartold, Otto Sverdrup, Vladimir Arsenyev, Waldemar Haffkine, José Carlos Mariátegui, and Theodor Nöldeke. After him are Eduard Meyer, Emil Krebs, Rafael Merry del Val, Riccardo Drigo, Frank P. Ramsey, and Infante Antonio, Duke of Galliera.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Adolf Engler ranks 384 out of 1,454Before him are Christoph Eschenbach (1940), I. L. Peretz (1852), Hyacinth of Poland (1185), Nikita Ivanovich Panin (1718), Alexandre Tansman (1897), and Horst Mahler (1936). After him are Josef Hofmann (1876), Johannes Bugenhagen (1485), Dita Parlo (1906), Sophia Jagiellon, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1464), Lubomyr Husar (1933), and Artur Schnabel (1882).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Poland

Among biologists born in Poland, Adolf Engler ranks 4Before him are Günter Blobel (1936), Ferdinand Cohn (1828), and Georg Forster (1754). After him are Johann Reinhold Forster (1729), Julius von Sachs (1832), Martin Rathke (1793), C. L. Gloger (1803), Johannes Thiele (1860), Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884), Gustav Radde (1831), and Władysław Taczanowski (1819).