BIOLOGIST

Alwin Berger

1871 - 1931

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Alwin Berger (28 August 1871 – 20 April 1931) was a German botanist best known for his contribution to the nomenclature of succulent plants, particularly agaves and cacti. Born in Germany he worked at the botanical gardens in Dresden and Frankfurt. From 1897 to 1914, he was curator of the Giardini Botanici Hanbury, the botanical gardens of Sir Thomas Hanbury at La Mortola, near Ventimiglia in northwestern Italy, close to the border with France. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alwin Berger has received more than 18,001 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Alwin Berger is the 439th most popular biologist (up from 507th in 2019), the 3,277th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,542nd in 2019) and the 89th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alwin Berger ranks 439 out of 1,097. Before him are Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, Lorenz Heister, Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau, Carl Friedrich von Ledebour, Pieter Bleeker, and Ernst Hartert. After him are Takenoshin Nakai, William Hudson, Edward Daniel Clarke, Heinrich Boie, Zhores Medvedev, and Luther Burbank.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Alwin Berger ranks 85. Before him are Oscar Wisting, Martin Knudsen, Danilo, Crown Prince of Montenegro, Alexander Spendiaryan, Leonidas Pyrgos, and Luigi Sturzo. After him are Guglielmo Ferrero, Segundo de Chomón, Gyula Kellner, Gustavs Zemgals, Kiyoshi Shiga, and Gyula Károlyi. Among people deceased in 1931, Alwin Berger ranks 75. Before him are Franz Schalk, Lya De Putti, Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, Bix Beiderbecke, Dionysios Kasdaglis, and Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa. After him are Viktor Dyk, Tommaso Tittoni, Arnold Bennett, Louis Billot, Harald Høffding, and Mammad Hasan Hajinski.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Alwin Berger ranks 3,277 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern (1868), Margaret of Thuringia (1449), Burgravine Louise Isabelle of Kirchberg (1772), Princess Friederike of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1811), Ernst Hartert (1859), and Lilli Lehmann (1848). After him are Duchess Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1803), Reiner Klimke (1936), Prince Alfons of Bavaria (1862), Friedrich Hirzebruch (1927), Richard Hildebrandt (1897), and Maximilian Fretter-Pico (1892).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Alwin Berger ranks 89. Before 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). After him are Heinrich Boie (1794), Heinrich Schrader (1767), Friedrich Boie (1789), Heinrich Kuhl (1797), Georg August Goldfuss (1782), and Wilhelm Roux (1850).

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