BIOLOGIST

Carl Sigismund Kunth

1788 - 1850

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Carl Sigismund Kunth (18 June 1788 – 22 March 1850) was a German botanist. He was also known as Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth. He was one of the early systematic botanists who focused on studying the plants of the Americas. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Sigismund Kunth has received more than 55,862 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Carl Sigismund Kunth is the 339th most popular biologist (up from 347th in 2019), the 2,622nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,755th in 2019) and the 58th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl Sigismund Kunth ranks 339 out of 1,097. Before him are Motoo Kimura, Craig Venter, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, Esther Lederberg, Jacob Christian Schäffer, and David Bruce. After him are Wilder Penfield, Carl Ludwig Blume, Georg Franz Hoffmann, Abraham Trembley, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel, and François-Alphonse Forel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1788, Carl Sigismund Kunth ranks 29. Before him are Geert Adriaans Boomgaard, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, Carl Reichenbach, Pierre Joseph Pelletier, Felice Romani, and Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat. After him are Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi, FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, Rafael Urdaneta, Pavel Kiselyov, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, and Mohammed bin Thani. Among people deceased in 1850, Carl Sigismund Kunth ranks 31. Before him are William Prout, Johann Gottfried Schadow, John C. Calhoun, Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, Lorenzo Bartolini, and Heinrich Christian Schumacher. After him are Margaret Fuller, Princess Frederica Wilhelmina of Prussia, Wilhelm Beer, Gustav Schwab, Bashir Shihab II, and Lodewijk van Heiden.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Sigismund Kunth ranks 2,622 out of 7,253. Before him are Albrecht VII, Duke of Mecklenburg (1486), Hennes Weisweiler (1919), Princess Isabella of Croÿ (1856), Alexander Kluge (1932), Jil Sander (1943), and Johannes Fabricius (1587). After him are Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865), Otto Weddigen (1882), Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1805), Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf (1724), Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1717), and Leo Löwenthal (1900).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Carl Sigismund Kunth ranks 58. Before him are Conrad Moench (1744), Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725), Albert Günther (1830), Anton Reichenow (1847), Hermann Burmeister (1807), and Jacob Christian Schäffer (1718). After him are Carl Ludwig Blume (1796), Georg Franz Hoffmann (1760), Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (1811), Valerius Cordus (1515), Fritz Müller (1822), and Christian Ludwig Brehm (1787).

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