BIOLOGIST

Alexander Braun

1805 - 1877

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Alexander Carl Heinrich Braun (10 May 1805 – 29 March 1877) was a German botanist from Regensburg, Bavaria. His research centered on the morphology of plants and was a very influential teacher who worked as a professor of botany at the universities of Freiburg, Giessen, and Berlin at various times. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Braun has received more than 54,582 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Alexander Braun is the 417th most popular biologist (up from 422nd in 2019), the 3,132nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,153rd in 2019) and the 82nd most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alexander Braun ranks 417 out of 1,097. Before him are Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, Johann Jakob Heckel, John Needham, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, Guillaume Rondelet, and Johan Ernst Gunnerus. After him are George Robert Waterhouse, Pehr Kalm, William Speirs Bruce, Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Lucien Quélet, and Juan Ignacio Molina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Alexander Braun ranks 37. Before him are Eugène Schneider, Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, Louise Bertin, Johann Friedrich Klotzsch, Auguste Barbier, and Malek Jahan Khanom. After him are Prosper Guéranger, Mastoureh Ardalan, Gabriel Bibron, John Lloyd Stephens, Johann Karl Rodbertus, and Anton von Schmerling. Among people deceased in 1877, Alexander Braun ranks 34. Before him are Walter Bagehot, Pōmare IV, Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine, Johann Christian Poggendorff, Alexandre Herculano, and Louise Bertin. After him are Charles Wilkes, José de Alencar, Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, Nikolay Ogarev, Nathaniel Palmer, and Errico Petrella.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Alexander Braun ranks 3,132 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippe (1821), Picander (1700), Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal (1667), Meryem Uzerli (1983), Friedrich Wolf (1888), and Felix von Luckner (1881). After him are Adolph VIII, Count of Holstein (1401), Richard Dehmel (1863), Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1713), Michael Ballhaus (1935), Hans von Ohain (1911), and Rainald of Dassel (1114).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Alexander Braun ranks 82. Before him are Jean Cabanis (1816), Karl Möbius (1825), Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776), Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1627), Johann Jakob Heckel (1790), and Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743). After him are Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied (1782), Georg von Langsdorff (1774), Paul Friedrich August Ascherson (1834), Lorenz Heister (1683), Carl Friedrich von Ledebour (1786), and Ernst Hartert (1859).

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