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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 16,740 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Alwin Berger is the 508th most popular biologist (down from 453rd in 2019), the 3,550th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,012th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alwin Berger ranks 508 out of 841. Before him are George Allman, Josephine Kablick, Bernard Heuvelmans, Anna Russell, Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer, and Patrick Manson. After him are Juliane Koepcke, Hugo von Mohl, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, Charles David Keeling, Heinrich Schrader, and Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Alwin Berger ranks 99. Before him are Thekla Resvoll, Nándor Dáni, Igor Grabar, Daniel Alomía Robles, Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede, and Fyodor Dan. After him are Robert Hugh Benson, Gino Fano, Gyula Károlyi, Lou Tseng-Tsiang, José Enrique Rodó, and Nils Edén. Among people deceased in 1931, Alwin Berger ranks 86. Before him are Oskar Minkowski, Teresa Claramunt Creus, Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Lya De Putti, Dmitri Egorov, and Wilson Bentley. After him are Alice Pike Barney, David Starr Jordan, Tommaso Tittoni, Cosmo Duff-Gordon, Buddy Bolden, and Lupu Pick.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Alwin Berger ranks 3,550 out of 6,142. Before him are Friedrich Paulsen (1846), Hannelore Elsner (1942), Liane Augustin (1927), Jutta Kleinschmidt (1962), Picander (1700), and Princess Augusta of Württemberg (1826). After him are Hugo von Mohl (1805), Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (1817), Friedrich Gernsheim (1839), Werner Klemperer (1920), Philibert, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1536), and Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1906).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Alwin Berger ranks 102. Before him are Karl Friedrich von Gaertner (1772), Johann Friedrich Meckel (1781), Emilie Snethlage (1868), Franz von Paula Schrank (1747), Johann Heinrich Blasius (1809), and Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer (1782). After him are Hugo von Mohl (1805), Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (1817), Heinrich Schrader (1767), Rudolf Schlechter (1872), Eduard August von Regel (1815), and Carl Ludwig Koch (1778).

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