BIOLOGIST

August W. Eichler

1839 - 1887

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August Wilhelm Eichler, also known under his Latinized name, Augustus Guilielmus Eichler (22 April 1839 – 2 March 1887), was a German botanist who developed a new system of classification of plants to reflect the concept of evolution. His author abbreviation in botany is Eichler. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of August W. Eichler has received more than 39,380 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. August W. Eichler is the 754th most popular biologist (up from 803rd in 2019), the 4,667th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,428th in 2019) and the 163rd most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, August W. Eichler ranks 754 out of 1,097. Before him are Louis Fraser, Neil Campbell, Akira Endo, George Romanes, Mary F. Lyon, and Charles Wyville Thomson. After him are Pál Kitaibel, Michele Tenore, John Gerard, Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein, Albert Bruce Jackson, and James Sowerby.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, August W. Eichler ranks 81. Before him are Albert Bernhard Frank, Marianne Hainisch, Julius Friedrich Cohnheim, Julius Wilbrand, Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, and Tage Reedtz-Thott. After him are Nicolaas Pierson, Ignacio Andrade, Almon Brown Strowger, William T. Anderson, Casimiro de Abreu, and Ivan Kuratov. Among people deceased in 1887, August W. Eichler ranks 49. Before him are Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Mikhail Katkov, Peder Balke, Fran Levstik, E. Marlitt, and John Taylor. After him are Dorothea Dix, Spencer Fullerton Baird, José Rufino Echenique, Sarah Yorke Jackson, Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, and August Spies.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, August W. Eichler ranks 4,667 out of 7,253. Before him are Louis Wirth (1897), Anneliese Rothenberger (1926), Jakob van Hoddis (1887), Günter Kunert (1929), Melchior Vulpius (1570), and Max Raabe (1962). After him are Rüdiger Abramczik (1956), Dieter Henrich (1927), Diana Damrau (1971), Mary Roos (1949), Hilde Schrader (1910), and Jörg Michael (1963).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, August W. Eichler ranks 163. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm Schultz (1804), Karl Julius Perleb (1794), Johann Jacob Dillenius (1684), Rodolfo Amando Philippi (1808), Wilhelm Weinberg (1862), and Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg (1766). After him are Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein (1768), Karl Moritz Schumann (1851), Charlotte Auerbach (1899), Peter Duesberg (1936), Ernst Ahl (1898), and Philipp Christoph Zeller (1808).

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