BIOLOGIST

Carl Friedrich von Ledebour

1786 - 1851

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Carl Friedrich von Ledebour (8 July 1786 in Stralsund – 4 July 1851 in Munich; also Karl Friedrich von Ledebour) was a Baltic German botanist. Between 1811 and 1836, he was professor of science in the University of Tartu, Estonia. His most important works were Flora Altaica, the first Flora of the Altay Mountains, published in 1833, and Flora Rossica, published in four volumes between 1841 and 1853, the first complete flora of the Russian Empire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Friedrich von Ledebour has received more than 19,700 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Friedrich von Ledebour is the 436th most popular biologist (up from 447th in 2019), the 3,264th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,338th in 2019) and the 87th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl Friedrich von Ledebour ranks 436 out of 1,097. Before him are Henrik Steffens, Jacob Georg Agardh, Olof Swartz, Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, Lorenz Heister, and Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau. After him are Pieter Bleeker, Ernst Hartert, Alwin Berger, Takenoshin Nakai, William Hudson, and Edward Daniel Clarke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, Carl Friedrich von Ledebour ranks 34. Before him are Joachim Lelewel, Justinus Kerner, Marc Seguin, Agustina de Aragón, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, and Sergey Uvarov. After him are Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo, Gregor MacGregor, Albrecht Adam, Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol, Alexander Chavchavadze, and José Joaquín Prieto. Among people deceased in 1851, Carl Friedrich von Ledebour ranks 33. Before him are Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta, Stanko Vraz, Conrad Graf, Göran Wahlenberg, and Alexander Alyabyev. After him are Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol, Ramón Freire, Marie Jules César Savigny, Leopold II, Prince of Lippe, Manuel Gómez Pedraza, and Esteban Echeverría.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Friedrich von Ledebour ranks 3,264 out of 7,253. Before him are Georg Sauerwein (1831), Horst Frank (1929), Carola Neher (1900), Ernst May (1886), Hans Bauer (1927), and Henry I, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark (1070). After him are Otto Ambros (1901), William Christoph, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1625), Christian Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1683), Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg (1547), Nannette Streicher (1769), and Andi Deris (1964).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Carl Friedrich von Ledebour ranks 87. Before him are Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743), Alexander Braun (1805), Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied (1782), Georg von Langsdorff (1774), Paul Friedrich August Ascherson (1834), and Lorenz Heister (1683). After him are Ernst Hartert (1859), Alwin Berger (1871), Heinrich Boie (1794), Heinrich Schrader (1767), Friedrich Boie (1789), and Heinrich Kuhl (1797).

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