BIOLOGIST

Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius

1794 - 1868

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Carl Friedrich Philipp (Karl Friedrich Philipp) von Martius (17 April 1794 – 13 December 1868) was a German botanist and explorer. Between 1817 and 1820, he travelled 10,000 km through Brazil while collecting botanical specimens. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius has received more than 96,400 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius is the 282nd most popular biologist (down from 281st in 2019), the 2,223rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,310th in 2019) and the 46th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius ranks 282 out of 1,097. Before him are John Maynard Smith, Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, René Louiche Desfontaines, George Bentham, Salim Ali, and Wilhelm Peters. After him are David Baltimore, Johann Georg Christian Lehmann, Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, Martin Vahl, Josif Pančić, and Hieronymus Bock.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius ranks 16. Before him are Wilhelm Müller, Aimable Pélissier, Eduard Rüppell, Léon Cogniet, Eilhard Mitscherlich, and Mirza Shafi Vazeh. After him are Pyotr Chaadayev, Friedrich Christian Diez, Ami Boué, Johann Heinrich von Mädler, Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt, and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld. Among people deceased in 1868, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius ranks 26. Before him are Tewodros II, François-Édouard Picot, Bhanubhakta Acharya, Carlo Matteucci, Rasoherina, and Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes. After him are Ferenc Gyulay, Nakano Takeko, Julius Plücker, Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Venancio Flores, and Wilhelm Griesinger.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius ranks 2,223 out of 7,253. Before him are John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1627), Fritz Pfeffer (1889), Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1630), Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria (1813), William, Duke of Brunswick (1806), and Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918). After him are Katarina Witt (1965), Lilly Reich (1885), Hans Loritz (1895), Willi Münzenberg (1889), C. W. Ceram (1915), and Ernest Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz (1573).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius ranks 46. Before him are Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1916), Eduard Rüppell (1794), Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767), Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809), Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802), and Wilhelm Peters (1815). After him are Johann Georg Christian Lehmann (1792), Hieronymus Bock (1498), Carl Hagenbeck (1844), Otto Brunfels (1488), Friedrich Loeffler (1852), and Conrad Moench (1744).

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